Can't get into it (Water Babies - Charles Kingsley)

Member Name: jacobite

Product:	Water Babies - Charles Kingsley
Date:	13/08/00 (30 review reads)
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Advantages: Can't think of any

Disadvantages: Too hard to get into

I have owned Water Babies for the best part of 40 years. I have it in small print and, even in my much younger days, I had no problem reading such books...I have always been an avid reader and owned a shelf of classics by the age of 8. However, I must have attempted more than 20 times to read Kingsley's tome but, somehow, I can't get beyond more than a few chapters.

I have seen the part animated film and that was okay but I really find the book hard to read. Perhaps he intended it for children but I do not know of many children who have been able to understand it very well.

I think it is only considered a children's book because it is about a young boy but the method of writing the story does not, I imagine, allow many little minds get into what it is all about.

This is just my opinion but it has bugged me for years that even now, in my middle age, I have still not read the Water Babies.

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