Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: The Borrowers Afield by Mary Norton, Beth Krush, Joe Krush ISBN: 0-15-204732-8 Publisher: Odyssey Classics Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A slow starter but good book all around
Comment: This book is the second book in a series by Mary Norton about little people who borrow what they need to survive from humans.The borrowers from book one are Arrietty, Homily and Pod. They continue their story in this sequel. In this book other borrowers are introduced. These include Spiller, Uncle Hendreary, Eggletina(one of Arrietty's three cousins) and Aunt Lupy.
In the beginning, I found this book to somewhat boring. It was a narrative from a human called Kate. She was the girl who learned of this story in book one. She and her Great Aunt Sophie travel from their home in the city to the country where Great Aunt Sophie inherited a cottage. This cottage is near where the borrowers story started. There was a complication however. It seemed that someone else lived in that same cottage. This man was now old. He lived there in the cottage for 80 years. Kate and Great Aunt Sophie want to find out if the story of the borrowers is real or not. Old Tom Goodenough is the man who lived in the cottage. He was also the young man in the original story who was brought in to use his ferret to try to get the borrowers out of the house. He remembers the borrowers. He had Arrietty's diary and let Kate read it. The book then flashes back to the actual time when Arreitty, Homily and Pod are escaping from the big house and trying to survive in their new world.
They had to try to find the Badger Set where they think other family mambers are living. This is the story of their journey. Arrietty, Homily and Pod find an old boot and decide that it would be their sleeping area. They had to drag it with them during the day, while they looked for the badger set. You could say this was an early camping trailer. They had a hard time finding the badger set, and decided to secure the boot under a stumps root and use it as a permanent home. Arrietty met Spiller who helped them. He supplied them with meat, tea, candles and a lot of other things. Spiller would borrow these items from a number of souces. He used a tin soap box for a boat and floated up and down the stream. Things were going well and then the frost came and then the first snow. They ran out of food and had to rely only on some wine that Spiller gave them. They got drunk and forgot to cover their entrance and a gypsy who was the owner of the boot, found it and took it home. Arrietty, Homily and Pod were still in the boot!
This is where the book gets really good. I won't ruin the surprise of this books ending for you.
I found this book a little hard to get into at first. I wish Mary Norton could have gotten to the plot line quicker. I like to read about how they survived and what they used to survive. Once I got into the main part of the book, I could not stop easily. It was suspensful. I wonder if Mary Norton will allow us to be introduced to other borrowers and further the story line with Arrietty, Homily and Pod. I like these characters and want to find out what will happen to them. I guess I will have to continue and read the rest of this series. Maybe you will hear from me in a review of The Borrowers Afloat.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Borrowers Afield
Comment: This book is about a very tiny family who is smoked out of their house under the floorboards of an old England home. They are forced to move to the fields and go on a journey to their relatives house. along the way they find a boot to live in and a tree stump for shelter. They meet a boy named Spiller who helps them out a little. In the end................
Rating: 5
Summary: More wonderful Borrowers
Comment: In this sequel to The Borrowers, the Clocks, having lost their home, must now set up a new life in a lost boot. Arrietty finds the outdoors exhilarating, while Homily finds it dangerous and extremely dirty. The Clocks know that there must be other Borrowers somewhere, but where are they, and how will they find them in such a big, wide world?
As with the last book, this one contains a charming story that is well accompanied by illustrations that add a lot to the simple words. These books are considered children's classics, and it's easy to see why. My children loved this book, and yours will, too.
 |
Title: The Borrowers by Mary Norton, Beth Krush, Joe Krush ISBN: 0152047379 Publisher: Odyssey Classics Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
 |
Title: The Borrowers Aloft: Plus the short tale Poor Stainless by Mary Norton, Beth Krush, Joe Krush ISBN: 0152047344 Publisher: Odyssey Classics Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
 |
Title: The Borrowers Avenged by Mary Norton, Joe & Beth Krush ISBN: 015204731X Publisher: Odyssey Classics Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
 |
Title:The Borrowers ASIN: B00007ELEM Publisher: Umvd Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.48 |
 |
Title: Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh ISBN: 0440416795 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
