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Fascinating. Definitely read this too late to get the same enjoyment as a child would. Instead I kept getting swept up in possible themes: downsides of materialism; the perspective we're stuck in when we have limited experience of the world, and know only what family/community members tell us; the 1950s publishing date and the house wife who seems obsessed with making a pleasant home and terrified of the outside world- the only respectable option?

Failings of early insular education + colonialist view of foreign languages, ah, the good 'ol days. 😬

I'm surmising coal-based fuel, not...y'know, the Scarface of the Borrowers. 🤭🤨

Thanks for the #ThoughtfulThursday tag!

My dad passed away 28 years ago on October 28th & I miss him EVERY day.💔He gave me my love of reading from before I could read myself to helping me learn by sharing favorite children‘s books to my fondness for historical fiction especially WWII era. About the only genre he loved but wasn‘t successful getting me to love was westerns. He was a movie buff too & we watched many a classic together. 💙💚💙

Not tagged but wanted to play. #wondrouswednesday @Eggs

1) The fall of the Berlin Wall and protests at Tiananmen Square. I thought the world was born anew with the end of the Cold War and these brilliant demonstrations for freedom. Sadly, not ultimately true, esp for China, but I‘m so glad I lived and witnessed these amazing events. Really dating myself: earliest memory: watching the moon landing on a b&w tv

2) Bookstore

3) Tagged

Circumspect: wary and unwilling to take risks.

When you are a tiny family living beneath the floorboards in a “giant” home, you must be vigilant and circumspect; you could be captured or worse!
The Borrowers‘ REALITY could easily become a
#nightmare #oppositeday @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TheKidUpstairs
#circumspect #springsentiments @Eggs

The Borrowers—the Clock family: Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise—are TINY people who live underneath the kitchen floor of an old English country manor.

#big #oppositeday @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TheKidUpstairs

“You might as well say that the fire grate steals the coal from the coal scuttle.” I‘ve loved this book since I first read it when I was six or seven years old, after bedtime, by the hallway light in my great-grandmother‘s house. Re-reading in anticipation of my little Zoom movie group‘s watch of Miyazaki‘s “The Secret World of Arriety” tonight.

I‘ve loved all things miniature since I read The Borrowers, multiple times, as a child. So naturally, I love this article:

Read in HuffPost: https://apple.news/A07abQqBfQeWaDk7pauREQQ

Mum read this 👆🏻to me💗

🎶 Mum listened to movie soundtracks (LPs) so I loved Camelot, Sound of Music, King and I and many others

🙏🏻 my legs that endure their journeys and my Litsy friends

#thankfulthursday @Cosmos_Moon

Day 7 #20Series20Days @Andrew65 I try to do books I haven't seen others mention, but I can't with this series. I adored Arietty and how small things humans use get turned into household items for them. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Adding to sweet @Texreader

Can you relate? I loved loved loved The Borrowers when I was a kid. I reread it again when one of the kids was young and borrowed it from the school library. I‘ll bet a lot of Littens can relate to this article, both those who are struggling to focus and those who are just churning through the books.

https://lifehacker.com/get-happier-by-rereading-your-favorite-books-from-child-1...

So I started a children book club here at the library and I was so excited when the kids selected one of my favorite childhood books to read this month.i can't wait to read it as an adult and see what I think of it as a grownup 🙏

Sweet and better than the movie

“Don‘t move!” said a voice, and the voice, like the eye, was enormous...”

I like how the illustrations are minimal so they allow for a lot of imagination but still show you an idea to lead your story in your head.

The Borrowers is a modern fantasy story written Mary Norton and illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush in 1953. This story is unique because the “borrowers” and tiny creatures that live within human household items. The story is cool because they are secretive and have to find ways to live their lives without being seen.

“Factories go on making safety pins and yet, somehow, there is never a safety pin when you want one. Where are they all?”

I loved this book as a kid because it has such a fun concept. I love the details like using a baby‘s letter block as a seat and a stamp as wall art.

The language is descriptive and intriguing. The pictures add depth to the story. The characters are well developed.

“So this is it, the worst most terrible thing of all: I have been seen!”
This climatic part in the story leaves the audience shocked and wondering what‘s going to happen to poor Arrietty! It‘s almost like a coming of age moment as well because there is fear of the unknown, what is going to happen!

I like this first image and the style of sketch to show us the borrowers home inside of a humans home! It‘s always great to see how big the borrowers actually are so when you are reading you can really imagine them in action!

Published in 1953 and illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush, this modern fantasy story depicts incredible worlds in which the borrowers live in a miniature world next to humans! The plot is clear and helps the reader understand that the borrowers want human items without being caught or seen. The fantasy aspects kick in because of how tiny these borrowers are and how they are living within the humans household items! How crazy!

Delightful and imaginative. I could read about the way the Borrowers put to use objects from our human-sized lives in their tiny homes forever. The book wasn‘t afraid to be a little dark at times too, which I find the best children‘s books don‘t shy from. Will definitely be looking for the sequels.

I feel like a cool librarian in this dress, so it‘s appropriate to wear when reading a book titled The Borrowers, which I borrowed from the library! Although really, aren‘t all librarians cool?

1. The Borrowers
2." Freaky Friday" (but only because I haven't seen "Taxi Driver" yet.)
3. "Stop! Stop! Stop!" by The Hollies It's about a guy getting kicked out of a club because he masturbated while watching a female dancer. I used to walk around singing it, to my dad's amusenent and my mom's horror. My sister did the same with "Cecilia" by Simon and Garfunkel.
4. U do u.
#Tuesdaytidbits @JenlovesJT47

Another book I never read as a child... Just read it with Bella and we really enjoyed it. It seemed to inspire her to get back to her sometimes-neglected dolls house this morning! #raisingreaders

1. The Borrowers
2. Breakfast!!! Bacon, blueberry muffins, banana bread...
3. Judy Blume
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
#manicmonday

Here‘s my April reading wrap up. The month ended up being unexpectedly busy. I‘m hoping to get in some of my #GARbingo pics in May!

I still love this childhood classic about the possibility of little people living amongst us. Now I need to go put up my fairy garden! 🧚🏻‍♂️
I read three books for #booked2018 this month
#friendship - The Attachments
#floweronthecover - Jane Steele
#childhoodfavorite - The Borrowers

🌻 The Borrowers
🌻 I used to have some flowers and a tomato plant, but they all died when I was pregnant about 3 yrs ago. (I was high risk, so I couldn't water.) I'm thinking of trying again this year, but I have to decide soon. Gardening is hard here in the desert.
🌻 Beatles cover band at the Purple Room in Palm Springs, CA ... when I was pregnant 3 years ago.
🌻 Vonnegut (aspire)
#weekendchat @CSeydel

When I was young, I wanted to be a borrower and sneak Little pieces of this and that to build my tiny little home hidden behind a wall. I‘m reading this for #booked2018 #childhoodfavorite. #belovedchildrensbook #hopintospring

🍀 The Borrowers
🍀 So,so many 🤷🏻‍♀️
🍀 Both
🍀 Indoor - Reading duh, Macrame, Cooking, Plants / Outdoor -Geocaching
#weekendchat

Watched Arrietty last night with my son in his quest to watch all the #studioghibli movies. I was surprised to read it was based on The Borrowers.

#booktomovie #bookstomovies

For the hour 6 #24in48 nostalgia challenge. This is a copy of the Borrowers give to my Aunt Mary from my Aunt Caroline in 1964. It was then passed down to me and i ruined it with pink highlighter. I believe I have an heirloom copy of Ann of Green Gables that I also ruined with pink highlighter. 🙃

[I need to reuse the photo since I‘m not home at the moment.]

The Borrowers is not the oldest book in my house but it is held very close to my heart. It‘s one of the very first books I was allowed to choose from the bookstore (a translated version). I remember my young self reading and rereading it a hundredth times over. It‘s well-loved. ❤️

#1stchallenge #hour6 #nostalgiaread #24in48 #readathon

Finished listening to The Borrowers today. Loved the movie as a kid. More recently I loved the #StudioGhibli version of it. Don‘t think I liked the book enough to finish the series but it was still a fun read. #audiobook #audiobooks #bookstomovies

Looking for a #ReadAThon to join?!?! #BorrowAThon Round 3 is back November 5-12! It‘s a week long ReadAThon that encourages you to read #BorrowedBooks! It‘s the perfect time to show your #Library some love, discover a #LittleFreeLibrary in your neighborhood, or borrow your friend‘s new favorite read! I‘m So excited to be hosting a round of Twitter sprints for this one!

Anyone planning on joining? Show me your TBRs!! ❤️📖

Books loved as a teen #riotgrams

Here is my August TBR pile. Three of these books are to read with my kids. My most anticipated book would be Outlander for lengthy lit. #AndItsAugust #BackToReading #BooksAcrossOceans #AugustTBR #Most anticipated #AugustMostAnticipated #LengthyLit

1. Lincoln, NE
2. This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
3. Next up: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
4. The Borrowers by Mary Norton
5. I refuse to watch book-to-film adaptations
6. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

#letstalkaboutbooksbaby

Here's some #naughtyneighbours for the #splashintosummerreads challenge (or #naughtyneighbors depending on where you're from).

Day 18 #JuneBookBugs #fathers Two favorite literary fathers of my childhood: Pod Clock of The Borrowers & Charles (Pa) Ingalls of the Little House books & the man who was instrumental in my love of books & reading, my dad. (The Borrowers was one of our favorite read-together books.) He's been gone for 23 years now & I miss him always.❤️Happy Father's Day to all the Litsy fathers & father figures & hugs to all who can't be with their dads today. 💜

I credit both my parents for a love of books & reading but my dad read to me the most & taught me to read at about 3 1/2-mostly through Dr. Seuss & other repetitive children's books. He liked Yertle the Turtle, I favored Are You My Mother? & we split the difference on Green Eggs and Ham. Later he introduced me to Pippi & The Borrowers & we read the books & watched the tv programs together. I treasure those memories so much.📚❤️ #jennasfinalproject