- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Sandpiper; Reissue edition (July 27 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0152105336
- ISBN-13: 978-0152105334
- Product Dimensions: 18.3 x 13 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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#1,906,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #31 in Books > Children's Books > Ages 9-12 > Series > Fantasy & Adventure > The Borrowers
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"Mary Norton has a priceless gift. She can view humans through the eyes of tiny folks and tiny folks through human eyes, and make both believable." (Chicago Tribune )
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Imprisoned in an attic by a greedy couple who want to use them as performers, the Borrowers escape by balloon.
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Some people thought it strange that there should be two model villages, one so close to the other. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The Borrowers in another tight situation,
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This review is from: The Borrowers Aloft: With the short tale Poor Stainless (Hardcover)
In this, the fourth book in the Borrowers series (after The Borrowers, The Borrowers Afield and The Borrowers Afloat), the Clocks have moved into Little Fordham, and are starting their new life. Unfortunately, unknown to them, the greedy Mr. Platter has built a rival model village. Having seen the Borrowers, he kidnaps them to add them to his own model. How can such small people escape from a prison built by such huge human "beans"?Ah, Mary Norton (1903-92) was a genius! Her Borrower stories are an excellent combination of suspenseful adventure and heartwarming drama. My children and I love this book, and highly recommend it to you!
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The Borrowers Aloft,
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This review is from: The Borrowers Aloft: With the short tale Poor Stainless (Paperback)
I liked this book a lot. I like to read about how resourceful the Borrowers are when they use stuff humans don't need or misplace. It had really nice pictures, too. I recommend this book to kids five years and older.
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Read them all. They're all wonderful!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Borrowers Aloft: With the short tale Poor Stainless (Paperback)
As a child in the 1950's, I read the original Borrowers in 4th grade. I read and re-read the one in the school library, til school closed for the summer. As luck would have it, I found the book and it's subsequent additions that summer in a book store. They were the only thing I ever BEGGED my mother to buy me. I took home The Borowers, The Borrowers Afield, and The Borrowers Afloat, and I still know parts of them by heart. When I was 18, the Borrowers Aloft came out, and my mother sent it to me at college. I was 36 when the Avenged came out, and I RAN to the bookstore. The stories are as fresh today as the first time I read them. I'm now in my 50's, and I can't imagine a life without Homily, Pod and Arriety Clock. Homily who is courageous, even though she'd rather not be. Pod, who is a simple man, taking care of his family. And Arriety, ready for life, ready for adventure, a young Victorian Feminist, if there ever was one. She taught me that a girl could be anything she wanted to be. They bravely faced a daunting world, and they're only 6 inches tall. I now own well over a thousand books, and really believe that it was this small family that lead me to my love of reading.
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