The Borrowers Aloft: With the short tale Poor Stainless

by Mary Norton

Paperback, 1990

Status

Available

Local notes

PB Nor

Barcode

1490

Genres

Publication

Sandpiper (1990), 224 pages

Description

Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML: Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been thrilling children young and old for fifty yearsâ??and their appeal is as strong as ever in The Borrowers Aloft. The original beloved interior illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush have been retained, capturing these little people with a larger-than-life appeal.

Original language

English

Physical description

224 p.; 7.62 inches

User reviews

LibraryThing member t1bclasslibrary
This story comes with the bonus story “Poor Stainless.” The borrowers have a cosy new home that is just their size and intended for them, but just as they’re settling in, someone captures them. They are trapped in an attic until Arriety discovers plans for hot air balloons, and they are able
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to make an escape.
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LibraryThing member ASBiskey
The beginning of the book barely relates to the borrowers at all, instead focusing on the creator of the miniature village they had moved to at the end of The Borrowers Afloat. When the borrowers are imprisoned by some greedy humans, they use there ingenuity to escape by balloon. The details of the
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escape are very thoroughly explained. The plot seems to flow with no apparent rhythm. This was a well told and enjoyable story, but the flow was not as enjoyable as the other books in the series.

Poor Stainless is included in this volume. It is very brief, about as long as chapter. It is a story unto itself, but completely irrelevant to the series. Worth reading, but you are not missing anything if you don't.
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Pages

224

Rating

½ (22 ratings; 3.8)
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