The Borrowers

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Summary: Story Student
Review: The Borrowers is a really good book. Borrowers are little people who live in the bottom of peoples houses and borrow their things. There is a family called the Clocks. There are worried and lonely for other Borrowers! Are there any borrowers left in the world? On day they go out, and they try to find any other Borrowers. Then they run into a cat! The cat grabs Mrs. Clock, and I recommend this book for all its joy and charm, and the author wrote this book for the short people of the world.

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Summary: Fun, fantasy and adventure
Review: The Borrowers is one of my favorite read-alouds. I have enjoyed reading it to each of my 4 children at various times and it has also been fun for them to re-read when they became fluent readers. The reader enters into a fantasy world that becomes almost believable as the story continues. One identifies with the "little people", Pod, Homily and Arrietty, especially Arrietty, who is not content to just hide, but wants to explore and finds adventure in the form of a "human bean" (a regular sized boy) with whom she develops a friendship. This is a big no-no in the world of the Borrowers, and children identify with a little child-person who is doing what she shouldn't. I highly recommend this as a bed-time story, for most ages, as soon as they are old enough to cuddle up and listen.

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Summary: Pure Magic For The Child In All Of Us
Review: The first in a wonderful series that weaves a spell nothing short of Magical! This is the type of book that takes you to that place where anything is possible, even to the point of belief in "little people" living under the floors in your house. Buy it for your child, then read it to awaken the child within yourself. You'll see your world from a different perspective whether you're 6 feet or 6 inches tall, whether you're 8 or 80 years old the entire "Borrowers" series is truly Pure Magic!

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Summary: A great story!
Review: There once was a girl named Katie. She was missing something. She asked Mrs. May. Mrs. May said, "It's probably the Borrowers." "The Borrowers," Katie asked. "What are those?" The Borrowers are miniature people. They live in Katie's house under the floor. This book is a very interesting story about their adventures. I liked the part when she sees the Borrowers. I didn't like it when the Borrowers almost get run over by a truck.

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Summary: little people rock
Review: this book is a awesome book because it has little pwople about six inches tall who live under a grandfather clock and they live buy borrowing things from humans like thumb pins and thumb needels

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Summary: Little People
Review: This book is a great intertaining book about little miniture people called the barrowers. Find out about the amazing lives this fantastic book. With creative pictures such as a pocket watch as a grandfather clock. This is a must buy.

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Summary: A delightful view of life from a tiny person's point of view
Review: This book is a must for all kids and pre-teens who enjoy a suspense-filled, fun-packed, fantasy. Living at the size of a toothpick isnt easy, but it sure is fun! The borrowers draw their readers into an amazing, wonderful world as they go through each of their adventures. When reading about how the tiny people "Borrow" household items and turn them into amazing things, its impossible to not be so absorbed that you almost feel 2 inches tall! Throughout the whole book, I was always awaiting the Borrowers next move, and when it ended, I wanted MORE! I recommend this book to anyone young or old who wants to read an enjoyable, wonderful story about survival in a completely different, yet the same, world. I ensure you that it is wonderful, and will be all-around loved by everyone in the family.

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Summary: The characters were fun and exciting in this book.
Review: This book is about a family named the Clocks: Pod, Homily, and Arrietty. The Clocks are really little people which live in the walls of a house during modern times. The characters were fun and exciting because they had to sneak around the house to "borrow" the things that they needed to live. The Clocks thought "human beans" were not very important; they just had the things that the Clocks needed. It was interesting to see how they used ordinary items in their homes. For example, they used a matchbox for a bed, a postage stamp for a picture, a pocketwatch for a clock, and a doll's teaset for their dishes. We liked the book because it was very descriptive and showed life in a whole different world. It was interesting to read, although it was about little people who stole, even though they called it borrowing, things that belonged to others. "Butterfly Bookies Book Club" Dyanna BeckerAudra Begley Caroline CaseyMeryl Colton Kelly DohenyCaitlin McCarthy Jessica McNierneyAllison Wolfe 3rd grade

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Summary: Enduring Favorite, Award Winning Classic
Review: This enduring favorite and award winning classic is a charming, attention holding book about a family of "little people" who live under the floorboards of a house and borrow items from the family living there. Their numerous escapades hold the interest of children in a delightful way. I have listed to many book reports in my classroom on this special book about imaginary "little people."
Evelyn Horan - teacher/author
Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl, Books One and Two

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Summary: The Borrowers
Review: This Fantasy book by Mary Norton is a fabulous book, rich in details. The plot is simple and easy and for a kid, it's not too hard to follow. Kids will be intrigued by the unique lifestyle of The Borrowers, short people who live under houses and live strictly from borrowing from the humans who live in the house above.