Bernard Cribbins reads Charles Kingsley’s much-loved tale about a little chimney-sweep who is turned into a water baby Tom the chimney-sweep has a hard life. He is beaten by his master, the cruel Mr Grimes, and forced to climb up dark flues where he bruises his knees and elbows and gets soot in his eyes. He is always hungry, for there is never enough to eat, and always dirty, as there is nowhere for him to wash. One day, he is so tired from sweeping flues that he comes down the wrong chimney and lands in the bedroom of a beautiful young girl, where he is mistaken for a thief and runs away. He falls asleep near a river – and when he wakes up, the fairies havetransformed him into a water-baby. He loves his new life swimming in the stream and having adventures, but he has no one to play with. So he sets off on a journey to the sea, to find the other water babies...

Bernard Cribbins reads Charles Kingsley’s much-loved tale about a little chimney-sweep who is turned into a water baby Tom the chimney-sweep has a hard life.

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