Sailors and Seababies: The Fairy Tales of Charles Kingsley

by Anne E. White, Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley wrote, “There are [few] fairy tales like these old Greek ones, for beauty, and wisdom, and truth, and for making children love noble deeds…” This book combines two of Kingsley’s own best fairy tales, The Heroes and The Water-Babies, and has been edited and annotated especially for the use of students following the AmblesideOnline Curriculum.

293 pages, Paperback

Published July 6, 2024

Reviews

[Mariah Dawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

We’ve used many of Anne’s guides (for Madam How and Lady Why and every Plutarch we’ve read for over a decade!), and this is another helpful addition.

But I think these guides have an unspoken dual purpose…

Anne models for us how to scaffold lessons, think through the readings, and how to initiate some first grand conversations. Beyond that, she demonstrates the science of relations, pulling quotes from her own time spent in “the city of books” as they apply. If we’re paying attention, these books are teaching us just as much as they are helping us teach our children.

[Staci · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anne White does a fantastic job with this guide. If Anne has a guide for a book we are reading, I will most likely choose to read it that way. Her vocabulary definitions, narration questions, and added information are so valuable. Water Babies wasn't my favorite fairy tale, but we really enjoyed The Heroes.