You can pick up these children’s books anywhere (I actually started with Borrowers Afield) but it is nice to read them in order. We meet memorable Spiller, a wild borrower who lives out of doors! My goodness, is that safe, Homily wonders, while Arrietty loves the idea of freedom. The books create a sort of long lasting tale as we follow the unfolding destiny of the family of Arrietty, her fearful mother Homily, and Pod, her experienced father. Unlike many series, where after the first book or two, you tire of the premise, in this case, each book leaves you wanting more. The imagination that Norton brings to the tales of these little people that live in houses, off the the lost items of humans, is so creative, that it seems like it must be true. The series of five children’s books by Norton, beginning with The Borrowers, and continuing with the Borrowers Afield, Aloft, Afloat, Avenged…, are in a group by themselves. She might have lived and died, as so many of her relations had done, in dusty twilight–hidden behind a wainscot.” “What a world- mile upon mile, thing after thing, layer upon layer of unimagined richness- and she might never have seen it.
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