The Borrowers

   The Borrowers are very small and very clever. They can climb, they make machines and they want to fight Ocious P. Potter before he squashes them!
「the borrowers penguin」の画像検索結果     Have you ever met very small people?  The Lender family lives happily but something mysterious happens often. Their things are lost and maybe someone steals them. In fact, the Clock family, borrowers’ family who are very small people live under the floors in Lender’s house. They take Lender’s things away and bring to their home. But they say they have never stolen one’s things, just borrow them. One day, the Clock family go up to the floor and look for useful things. Father Pod, his daughter Arrietty, and his son Peagreen enjoy their life. But, unfortunately, Pete Lender finds them. Pod’s family thinks human beings are really dangerous and they squash borrowers as soon as they find them. So the borrowers run away quickly. The lender family also face difficult things. They have to sell their house because a bad lawyer called Mr. Potter tells them to do so.


How can they overcome this difficulties??  Can they make good relationships with human beings?



After I read this book, I felt this book was similar to one of Studio Ghibli's movies, “The Secret World of Arrietty”.  According to Wikipedia, "The Secret World of Arrietty" was based on this book. Names of main characters in this movie are the same as ones of characters in "The Borrowers". This book is as interesting as the Japanese movie.


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  1. Ziburi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli
    I felt this book was similar to one of Ziburi movies:
    https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/借りぐらしのアリエッティ#概要

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