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The Complete Adventures of the Borrowers

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Hi! If you love The Borrowers books by Mary Norton, then you'll love this book! It's a collection of all the Borrowers stories put into one volume. I orded this book from amazon.com and had no trouble getting it, even though it's out of print. So, go ahead and buy it! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

I used to read The Borrowers as a child (probably at 12 or 13 yrs?) and I really enjoyed them at the time. I just recently bought this set. I was also hoping to introduce them to an 8 year old friend of mine. While they proved too challenging for her, I thoroughly enjoyed rereading them myself. They are very well-written, the characters are rich and realistic (even if they are under a foot tall!), and the stories are exciting. I believe most children ages 11 and up who enjoy reading will appreciate these. The main character, Arriety, is about 13 years old, and she goes through bits of teenaged angst and frustration that we can all relate to. Living under the floor all her life, she longs for adventures in the outdoors, and she eventually gets her wish, even as her mother frets over all dangers. The illustrations are lively and expressive black and white drawings.
There is a new animated movie coming out soon, which looks okay. But I say get these books and read them while you still can and enjoy them before the movie images take over how you picture the characters in your own imagination!

Wonderful story of the Borrowers. A book I remember well from my childhood, just had to get a copy for my grandchildren!

Great book to read to little ones and expand their imagination. I never read them as a child, but I now love to read them to my son. Hope this series continues to get published.

Great books. I read them as a child and now my 9 daughter has. We gave this set as a gift to two other 9 year olds and they loved them too. Borrowers are small people secretly living in a large humans house. They face adversity and eviction and have to find new homes in fields, by streams and in attics in each book. Delightful, believable characters. Arriety is a curious, kind young girl that the readers relate to. Some boys may enjoy too, as book 2 introduces a boy named Pod that was living on his own in the wild.