A review by kandicez
The Borrowers by Mary Norton

5.0

This was so nostalgic! I devoured these tales over and over as a young girl. My RL (Zoom in the time of COVID) book club decided to read this and watch three versions of the movie adaptations to compare. I forgot how truly charming these were!

I intended to read this a bit at a time over three days or so, but I finished it all in one sitting. I love the Borrowers and little Arietty most of all. Norton fabricates the sweetest notion of why things end up missing. Why is there always need for more pens, pins, safety pins, needles, etc? They are manufactured by the 100s of thousands and yet you can never find one when needed. It's because the small people who live in the walls of our homes make use of them when we leave them lying around!

Norton describes this little family's home is such a charming way. The illustrations are fantastic, but I can see everything we don't get in illustrated form. Everything she describes makes such perfect sense and seems so logical.

I'm pretty sure I will reading the rest of this series before too long. I can't wait to encounter Cousin Dinky again!