Waterbabies (band)
The Water Babies, Water Babies, or Water Baby may refer to: * ''The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby'', a novel by Charles Kingsley published in 1863 * The Water Babies (film), ''The Water Babies'' (film), a 1978 live action/animated film based on the novel * Water Babies (1935 film), ''Water Babies'' (1935 film), a 1935 animated short film in the ''Silly Symphonies'' series * ''The Water Babies'', a 2003 musical based on the novel by Jason Carr and Gary Yershon, directed by Jeremy Sams * Water Babies (album), ''Water Babies'' (album), a 1976 album by Miles Davis * The Water Babies, a UK band who released the 2005 single "Under the Tree (song), Under the Tree" *Water Baby (song), "Water Baby" (song), a song by English musician Tom Misch *Water birth, a childbirth that occurs in water *Water baby syndrome, an older, alternative name for hydrocephalus *Mizuko kuyō, the stillbirth, stillborn, abortion, aborted, and miscarriage, miscarried in Abortion in Japan, Japan See a ...
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The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale For A Land Baby
''The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby'' is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–63 as a serial for ''Macmillan's Magazine'', it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's ''On The Origin of Species''. The book was extremely popular in the United Kingdom and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favour in America in part due to its claimed prejudices against Irish, Jews, Catholics, and Americans. Story The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house. There he appears to drown and is transformed into a "water-baby", as he is told by a caddisfly—an insect that sheds its skin—and begins his moral education. The story is thematically concerned with Christian redemption, though Kingsley also uses the book to argue that E ...
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