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A delightful tale that feels very much of its time, although it does insist that girls want to explore and have adventures, too, which it has in common with many a contemporary children's fantasy story. A thing that is much more unusual these days is a framing story, which initially, I could not s...
Have you ever wondered where that eraser you swear you left on the kitchen table disappeared to? Do you always seem to be replacing safety pins and you have no idea where they all go? You're not completely batty! According to Mary Norton, author of The Borrowers, your house is probably home to tiny ...
This is the only Borrowers book that I have read. When I read this in 6th grade, I couldn't find the first book, so I just read this one, and I never got around to reading the others. Anyway, if you have NOT read the previous book, I suggest you do, because things will make more sense. So, the borro...
As a child I was intrigued by the ingenuity of these little people--what they used for furniture, what they ate with, how they lived. I loved the idea that there were tiny people living amongst us in a world, that although it was the same one we lived in, was nothing like we perceived it to be.
This is one of those books which I thoroughly appreciate as an adult that I wouldn't appreciate as a child, and yet I heartily recommend it to children.It's a sort of Benjamin Button phenomena. As a child, I liked to read Charles Dickens because Matilda loved Dickens. And so I devoured classic after...