The Borrowers (Review)

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Review No.: 0.09.3000.018

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Review No.: 0.09.3000.018
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The Borrowers by Mary Norton is a book for the child in everyone who wishes for magic in the midst of everyday life. Borrowers are miniature people who live by "borrowing" what they need and want from the world of us giants. They live by snitching and by ingenuity. The concept almost demands a moment of silence in respect of the genius able to formulate so delightful an explanation for something as mundane as socks disappearing in the laundry, or the host of household things we spend a lifetime losing and replacing. Of course in a child’s world there is the added satisfaction of finding a fanciful way of dealing with the ever present specter of accusation and blame that stalks the issue of a missing this or a misplaced that.

The characters are real. The settings are real. The author steps into both and paints them with a deft pen of understanding. Through her words, the world of the borrowers � back of the baseboards and in the crawl spaces--comes to life. Stepping into it we draw closer to the world we knew as children. The memory of childhood is dusted off a bit, and to the children in our own lives we find bridges newly made that span the gulf between their world and ours.

The story is also about growing up, about taboo questions, about ignorance of the world beyond the backyard fence, about the struggle of parents to protect and yet set free the child they nurture. There is plenty of captivating warmth and wit, suspense, and ingenuity.

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Author

Nancy Young

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This review is Copyright 2010 • By Nancy Young • All Rights Reserved.

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Creator(s)

Mary Norton

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