Thursday, April 12, 2012

CB #9: The Borrowers

The Borrowers
Author:  Mary Norton
Illustrator:  n/a
Genre:  Juvenile Fiction
Subgenre:  fantasy
Themes:  little people, borrowing, friendship, beating the odds
Primary Characters:  Homily, Pod and Arrietty
Secondary Characters: Arrietty's friend (human bean)
Awards: n/a
Date of Publication:  2003
Publishing Company:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
This cute adventure is about a tiny family, the Clocks, who live under the kitchen floor in the "human bean's" house.  Their household items are little things that were borrowed from the house they were living in.  This is a cute story that shows how this little family beat the odds and made it in the word of big people.  This is an amazing chapter book for kids of all ages.  If I enjoyed it, I know everyone will.

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