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"An Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic."
Originally published by the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company in 1953.
Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock.
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Disappointing submitted by Zekicmom on August 12, 2014, 9:58pm I remember loving this book when I was younger so I was excited to share it with my daughter. I now wish I had left it as a fond memory without revisiting the book. Although the idea of tiny people living in secret in our homes and "borrowing" what they need is great fun, it just didn't hold up to my memory and did not captivate my daughter as I thought it would.
Try the Littles submitted by kathscot on July 4, 2015, 1:59pm For another series featuring tiny people.
Grim
submitted by bfields on September 22, 2016, 10:20am
Rereading this as an adult, I'd forgotten how depressing it is. This is the story of the how the tiny "borrowers" fight to survive and to stay in their home, but are eventually driven out by the human inhabitants, who are in decline themselves. We learn that many of the borrowers' friends and relatives have left, and probably died, and wonder if they're among the last of their kind. The plot is a gradual decline with the ending softened only by a second-hand recounting of a hint that the main character has survived.
It's not bad, but starting it with my 5-year-old was probably a mistake.
PUBLISHED
Orlando, FL : Harcourt, 1998.
Year Published: 1998
Description: 180 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0152047379
1451706324
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Krush, Beth.
Krush, Joe.
SUBJECTS
Borrowers (Fictitious characters)
Fantasy.
Families -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.