octavia_cade 's review for:

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

3.0

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This was quite a nice surprise actually, given my apparently immovable dislike for anything that smacks of Gulliver's Travels. I've never been able to get on with the idea of Lilliputian-sized people in a story - bloody GT has done for that - but I gritted my teeth and picked this up anyway. (I'm reading my way through the New York Public Library's list of 100 Great Children's Books and this was on it, so.) I was surprised how dark it is, what with Mrs. Driver trying to slaughter her way to mass murder, and the child eaten by the cat, but there were some amusing bits as well to balance it out. Homily's sudden about-face at being seen, her greed for new furniture overcoming fright, was the best example of that I think. Apparently there are more in the series, and I don't actually hate the thought of reading them, so sucks to you, Gulliver.