Pros: charming, creative, delightful tale Cons: Not really a con -- has some dark moments.
At age 11 or 12, my mother checked The Borrowers out of our little English-language library. The story of little people, six inches tall, that lived in our walls and stole (excuse me, “borrowed” )odds and ends to furnish their own homes fueled my...
Pros: adventure, droll satire, cozy detailed illos Cons: lots of Fine Old Pale Madiera
This is a review of the original novel.
The Borrowers are tiny little people living in the stately homes of England around the turn of the previous century, and they live by "borrowing" whatever they need or want from humans. They...
Pros: Sweet and imaginative, you'll fall it love with the little heroine, Arrietty Cons: Treacly
This book (and the series it spawned) is a truly fabulous adventure that chronicles the lives and times of a family of borrowers, the Clocks. Borrowers are a tiny race of human-like creatures (oh, how they would hate to be compared with human "beans")...
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