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by Mary Norton (Author) "IT WAS KATE who, long after she was grown up, completed the story of the borrowers ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books; 1 edition (1 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0152047328
  • ISBN-13: 978-0152047320
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 299,669 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars More wonderful Borrowers, 29 Oct 2003
By Kurt A. Johnson (Marseilles, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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In this sequel to The Borrowers, the Clocks, having lost their home, must now set up a new life in a lost boot. Arrietty finds the outdoors exhilarating, while Homily finds it dangerous and extremely dirty. The Clocks know that there must be other Borrowers somewhere, but where are they, and how will they find them in such a big, wide world?

As with the last book, this one contains a charming story that is well accompanied by illustrations that add a lot to the simple words. These books are considered children's classics, and it's easy to see why. My children loved this book, and yours will, too.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An enchanting world ... of little people and ourselves, 27 May 2009
By Big Texas Butters (Leicestershire, UK) - See all my reviews
Mary Norton's Borrowers books are usually considered and published together now, after the BBC TV series and the later Hollywood film, but this, the second of the original books, can stand alone as a wonderfully-crafted description of the Borrowers' adventures in the wide world (or at least the couple of fields and dwellings that seems like the wide world to them).

Comparisons are usually made with the small worlds of Stuart Little and Honey I Shrunk, but am I alone in noting the strong similarity between the Borrowers and the Harry Potter books? The self-contained parallel worlds, the intricate rituals and co-existence with the "human" world draw us in, to share the experience - no criticism to J.K. Rowling, but Mary Norton's writing skills and mixture of whimsy, nostalgia and suspense, grip us with an elegance that is truly remarkable.
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