![]() ![]() Nan is 11 years old and she is tough and smart and might be the best climber who has ever lived. ![]() It’s recorded as one of the most dangerous jobs in history and it was happening to children and it was happening in our own homes.Įnter Nan Sparrow. The chimney sweeps would hire these kids, they would sometimes purchase them from their parents or even kidnap them, and send these kids called climbers up and down scrubbing out chimneys all day long, and it was brutal and dangerous work. They hadn’t developed brushes to do it, so they had to use children-the smaller the better. For hundreds of years, chimney sweeps were not these happy, jolly people.Įven though fireplaces are big, the chimneys are very small and adults can’t fit up inside them to clean. ![]() If you are like me, or most people, when you think about chimney sweeps you think of them as jolly guys dancing on rooftops like from Mary Poppins. Sweep is the story of a girl and her monster and it’s set in the world of chimney sweeps. ![]()
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