The Borrowers by Mary Norton Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Borrowers
Book Review: A Great Book About Little Adventurers
Summary: 4 Stars
The Borrowers is written by Mary Norton. The main characters are Arriety, Pod and Homily. They are tiny people who live under the floorboards of a house. They "borrow" stuff for their own house. The story convinces you that the borrowers are real. Some parts of the book are very suspenseful and exciting. In one part, Arriety gets captured by a human! That may not sound important but it is. Read this book and find out why.
P.S If you like this book you should read the other four books in the Borrowers series. I did and they are really good.
by Walker
Book Review: A Timelessly Appealing Fantasy
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was 12 years old I was fortunate enough to be introduced to the Borrowers, by Mary Norton. That story, and its sequels, quickly became one of my favorites, and I still treasure the old paperbacks that I collected nearly forty years ago.
Borrowers are a race of tiny people who live under the floorboards and behind the walls of old houses deep in the English countryside. They borrow bits of food and other things from the "human beans" who live in the house, and try to make their homes as comfortable as possible without being discovered. In The Borrowers, Mary Norton introduces us to the Clock family, Pod, Homily, and their daughter Arrietty. Arrietty is thirteen and bursting to find out what life is like beyond the walls of her tiny home. Eventually this curiosity leads to new knowledge and understanding for both the borrowers and one of the human beans, and also to the borrowers being forced to flee for their lives. In other words, Arrietty begins to grow up, and as she does her life and those of everyone around her change irrevocably.
Mary Norton wrote The Borrowers in the early 1950s. She was a superb writer who was able to describe the lives of the borrowers and the human beans so convincingly that the reader accepts the entire fantasy as possible or even probable. How else to explain the mysterious disappearances of buttons, safety pins, spools of thread, and sundry other mysteries we all encounter every day?
Book Review: I think this book rocks!
Summary: 5 Stars
I like The Borrowers a lot. I really love how the author creates a whole different world for these tiny people that take human's things! The author is really encouraging you to believe in Borrowers and think that if you lost something that you kept near the ground, a borrower took it and I like how she does that. This is a very well-written fantasy book that I found really great!Book Review: Lovely Little Tale
Summary: 5 Stars
This was an absolute joy to read! You probably know the story, as it has been around so long (and I won't give you a synopsis), but please read it to really get to know the characters and even a comical view into English family life. It is quite hilarious at times, especially when the floor is broken open by a 'human-bean' and the Borrower's little home is looked into from above on the one day in a million that the kitchen was left uncleaned. Oh the horror! It's the little things like that that nudge the book from good to really great.Book Review: Makes you believe!
Summary: 5 Stars
Arrietty Clock and her parents, Pod and Homily, are tiny people who live beneath the floor of an old house and `borrow' the things they need from the humans who live in the house above. At one point, many borrowers lived in the house, but the others emigrated for various reasons and only the Clocks live in the house. While her parents seem happy, Arrietty longs to see the world outside. Her mother finally persuades Pod to take her borrowing and her first time out, she meets the boy upstairs. The boy is as curious about Arrietty as she is about him, and they become friends, with the boy bringing the family all kinds of gifts, furniture, food, jewelry, etc. Unfortunately, the boy takes too much and the housekeeper notices things are missing. Soon the Clocks are forced to flee.
This is a terrific book on many levels. It is a book about friendship, different cultures, greediness and fear. The book is so well written that you really do believe the Borrowers exist. After all, who hasn't lost a pencil, safety pins, needles, etc.?
Now that I've finished this book, I want to read the rest of the books in the series!