Mary Norton’s The Borrowers narrates the story of a family of little people who have built their home below the floor of a weakening country home. Pod and Homily Clock love and take care of their audacious daughter Arrietty by ‘borrowing’ what they must to survive, and a bit more, from the human “beans” who reside right over them. So that they don’t stir any suspicion, they take no more than the things which will not be missed, such as sheets of blotting paper and old cigar boxes. It is with these objects that the borrowers build a home and go about this certain way of life. One of the stronger themes found in this book is that of smallness and vulnerability, but another theme I got from the book is that it is okay, rather it is good to explore the world, however, at all times you must be careful. In the book, Arrietty’s dilemma includes exploring the world a little more then she ought to have. The illustrations are fun to look at, and in black and white, they show the difference in size between the human and the borrowers. I would suggest this book to children between the age of eight and twelve.
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