The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for Land-babies by Reverend Charles Kingsley, first published in 1868. It’s the story of a little boy named Tom who lived in middle of the 1800s. Tom is a chimney sweep–he crawls into the chimneys of rich peoples’ houses to clean out the soot. It’s a dirty job, and he is always tired and hungry. One day
The City Cat and the Country Cat
Bobby and his cat, Rex, travel to Farther Along Farm in Mississippi for a visit. It will be Rex’s first time on the farm, so he’ll see, hear, and do all sorts of new things. A lot of those things may be pretty scary to him, but not to the Country Cat, Snaps.
Does this sound familiar?