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The Borrowers - I wonder if they really exist. To think about so many things being lost in our house - little things, trinkets really. Is it possible that some borrowers were responsible for it? :D
I like this book, about the Clocks, a family of Borrowers, little people who lived by borrowing things from "human beans" aka "human beings" :D The adventures of Clock family became more thrilling when there was a boy living in the big house and accidentally knew about them. This is a children's classi ...more
I like this book, about the Clocks, a family of Borrowers, little people who lived by borrowing things from "human beans" aka "human beings" :D The adventures of Clock family became more thrilling when there was a boy living in the big house and accidentally knew about them. This is a children's classi ...more
It looks like I must continue with the series now! I had read some of the series as a child -- I am pleased to see there are more of the books I didn't know of. I loved this first book in the series as much as when I was young. It is a captivating story of the Borrowers living close little lives just in the shadow of our own lives. They are inventive and industrious with a good bit of perseverance, but they are class-conscious and troubled and some believe they are just afraid of life so they ha
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