... They use things from the house for their own use such as a thimble for a cooking pot and safety pin as a clothesline. Their greatest fear is being "seen" by a human and what might happen after especially if they have a cat!
It is a very enjoyable read. One could say it is a bit dated as ... Read review
Anyone who has ever entertained the notion of "little people" living furtively among us ... more
will adore this artfully spun classic. The Borrowers--a Carnegie Medal winner, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award book, and an ALA Distinguished Book--has stolen the hea...
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Anyone who has ever entertained the notion of "little people" living furtively among us ... more
will adore this artfully spun classic. The Borrowers--a Carnegie Medal winner, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award book, and an ALA Distinguished Book--has stolen the hea...
Postage & Packaging: £2.75 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Anyone who has ever entertained the notion of "little people" living furtively among us ... more
will adore this artfully spun classic. The Borrowers--a Carnegie Medal winner, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award book, and an ALA Distinguished Book--has stolen the hea...
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Arrietty's father, Pod, was an expert Borrower. He could scale curtains using a hatpin, ... more
and bring back a doll's teacup without breaking it. Girls weren't supposed to go borrowing but as Arrietty was the only child her father broke the rule. She made friends with the human boy living in the house.
Pod, Homily and Arrietty are a family of tiny people who live beneath the floor. ... more
Everything they have is borrowed from the "human beans" who don't even know they exist. Arrietty, the only child, is allowed to go borrowing, but ends up making friends with "the boy upstairs".
Anyone who has ever entertained the notion of "little people" living furtively among us ... more
will adore this artfully spun classic. The Borrowers--a Carnegie Medal winner, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award book, and an ALA Distinguished Book--has stolen the hearts of thousands of readers since its 1953 publication. Mary Norton (1903-1993) creates a make-believe world in which tiny people live hidden from humankind beneath the floorboards of a quiet country house in England. Pod, Homily and daughter Arrietty of the diminutive Clock family fit out their subterranean quarters with the titbits and trinkets they've "borrowed" from "human beans", employing matchboxes for storage and postage stamps for paintings. Readers will delight in the resourceful way the Borrowers recycle household objects. For example, "Homily had made her a small pair of Turkish bloomers from two glove fingers for 'knocking about in the mornings.'" The persistent pilfering goes undetected until a boy (with a ferret!) comes to live in the country house. Curiosity drives Arrietty to commit the worst mistake a Borrower can make: she allows herself to be seen. This engaging, sometimes hair-raisingly suspenseful adventure is recounted in the kind, eloquent voice of narrator Mrs May, whose brother might--just might--have seen an actual Borrower in the country house many years ago. (Ages 9 to 12)
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Advantages: Original, imaginative, nostalgic Disadvantages: over descriptive for young tastes
...is a story generated from the mystery of mislaid objects around your house. Maybe it is not your forgetfulness as to where you left something; maybe some tiny people have "borrowed" it instead. This story follows that premise with the main characters being a small family of "borrowers" Pod, Homily and their daughter Arriety being the last borrowers left in an old house. They use things from the house for their own use such as ... ...tells of a time at the beginning of the last century but what I found reading to my child was all the new words she learnt from the past such as scullery, fire irons and hat pin; even blotting paper is not something she comes across nowadays. She loved the story as it fired her imagination about little people under the stairs. We then had to read the other three books in the series.
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This is a wonderful story from childhood that I have loved to read to my own child. It is a story generated from the mystery of mislaid objects around your house. Maybe it is not your forgetfulness as to where you left something; maybe some tiny people have "borrowed" it instead. This story follows that premise with the main characters being a small family of "borrowers" Pod, Homily and their daughter Arriety being the last borrowers left in an old house. They use things from the house for their own use such as a thimble for a cooking pot and safety pin as a clothesline. Their greatest fear is being "seen" by a human and what might happen after especially if they have a cat!
It is a very enjoyable read. One could say it is a bit dated as it tells of a time at the beginning of the last century but what I found reading to my child was all the new words she learnt from the past such as scullery, fire irons and hat pin; even blotting paper is not something she comes across nowadays. She loved the story as it fired her imagination about little people under the stairs. We then had to read the other three books in the series.
Advantages: Opens up the Imagination Disadvantages: None
...risk everytime
they go on the hunt for food. All the small items that get mislaid,
can be found in their home. A small pair of nail scissors become
a sword, cotton reels a table. The only fear they have are humans.
This is a lovely story and wonderful for children and adults.
If only life could be this simple. ...
Patricia 12.06.2000
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Product details
Type
Fiction
Genre
Children's
Title
The Borrowers
Author
Mary Norton
ISBN
140347186
EAN
9780140347180
Manufacturer's product description
Enter the world of the Borrowers, a race of tiny people the size of mice. Their characters, lives and escapades combine fantasy and reality in a tale. The author also wrote "The Borrowers Aloft", "The Borrowers Avenged", "Bedknob and Broomstick" and "The Borrowers Afloat".
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