Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144409 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

More wonderful Borrowers
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.

An enchanting world ... of little people and ourselves
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.