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Book Review of The Borrowers

The Borrowers
The Borrowers
Author: Mary Norton, Sherwood Smith
Genre: Children's Books
Book Type: Paperback
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Underneath the kitchen floor is the world of the Borrowers. Pod and Homily clock and thier daughter, Arrietty. In their tiny jome, mathcboxes double as roomy dressers and postage stamps hang on the walls like paintings. whatever the Clocks need they simply "borrow" from the "human beans" who live above them. Its a comfortable life.

Comfortable - but boring if your a kid
Only Pod is allowed to venture into the house above, because the danger of being seen by a human is too great. Borrowers who are seen by humans are never again seen. Yet Arrietty is desperate for a friend....
But then Arrietty is seen. suddenly it seems everyone in the house hold is after the Borrowers. Except the one person who can help them. And so the desperate Clocks must trust their fates to that most dreaded of creatures....a human bean.