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The borrowers afloat5/30/2023 ![]() Of course, you don't know until you know, and hey, these novels portray all the anti-borrower villains as horrid caricatures, not just the villains of one culture or another. Now, what I'm sure I wouldn't have known better about as a child are this book's uses of a term for a particular group of people-an old term that should fall out of use. Though I'm not sure how much I might have appreciated it as a child, I also like how there's just enough conjecture and ambiguity from the human characters reflecting on these "past" stories of borrowers, leaving readers to decide how much to believe. I enjoy the old-fashioned style of these classic tales as well as the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the borrowers. While I first read Books One and Two of this series back in my childhood, this was my first time reading Book Three. The little Clock family-Pod, Homily, and their teenaged daughter Arrietty-is thus uprooted once more to face a new adventure in The Borrowers Afloat by author Mary Norton. Being borrowers who quietly depend on the giant human beings around can be tough, including when the human beings pack up and move away, leaving nothing behind to.borrow. ![]()
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