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==Confident readers==
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|author=Mary Norton
|title=The Borrowers: The Borrowers and The Borrowers Afield
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=
Most people will be aware of the story of the Borrowers. First published in 1952, it has been dramatised several times, most recently as Arrietty, the beautiful Studio Ghibli animated film. A little girl called Kate is told a story by an elderly lady, Mrs May, who lodges with her parents. Her brother was sent as a small boy to stay with an elderly great-aunt in a large house near Leighton Buzzard, a market town in the Home Counties. He is recovering from a serious illness. The house is an ideal place for the Clock family, tiny people who survive by 'borrowing' from humans (even their names - Pod, Homily and Arrietty - sound as though they're repurposed from human names. However, the boy spots Arrietty, and this leads to disaster for the Borrowers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444005812</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cathy MacPhail
