Norton, Mary. The Borrowers. NY: Harcourt Inc., 1953. 180 pages. (Fantasy)
Under the kitchen floor live the two-inch-high Borrowers, The Borrowers are a happy family consisting of Pod and Homily Clock and their daughter Arrietty. The Clocks have never been seen before. That is until Arrietty snuck away from her father while borrowing. The Clocks “borrow” everything from the human beings who live above them. While borrowing with her father, Arrietty wanders off and runs into a human boy. Arrietty is so scared that when the boy asks her a question, she just blurts everything out- where she lives, who her family is, and on, and on, and on. After a few minutes of Arrietty going on and on they became friends. Every night the boy would sneak down to the kitchen and make sure the Clocks have everything they wanted and needed. Will Arrietty’s friendship with the boy cause the Clocks to be revealed?
I chose this book because the picture on the front was very interesting. It was a picture of three very little people in a bedroom, but the bedroom was under the floor. Parts of the floor had been taken off and there was a boy standing there looking at them. When I read the back cover of the book, it sounded like something I normally would not read, but I chose to read it anyways. This sounded like something I wouldn’t normally read because I like nonfiction books better than fiction books. This was a very good book because there were a lot of adventures in it between Arrietty and the boy. It was a very good book, and I would recommend it to my friends.
Reviewed by: Kae5495
