The Borrowers aloft
Pocketbok. Penguin Books Ltd. 1970. 168 sidor.
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Our Borrower family have made it to Little Fordham, the model village built by an old man, Mr Pott, for the love of model-making. It’s like Borrower heaven – a whole town with buildings just the right size for a Borrower, and the borrowings are great too, what with all the visitors and all.
Problem is that somewhere across the river there’s another model village, run by the Platter couple. When the unscrupulous Platters discover that the rival village has got living models, a plan is quickly hatched: to kidnap the living models! And so the Clock family end up spending the winter as prisoners in the Platter loft, trying to work out how to get out.
There are several interesting things about this book. First of all, it takes several chapters before we get to read about the Clocks from their perspective. The first chapters are all about how Mr Pott came to set up his model village and how Miss Menzies is helping him – and then Miss Menzies talking about the little people who have come to live in the model village, while Mr Pott only lends her about half an ear.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 0140304533
- Titel
- The Borrowers aloft
- Författare
- Norton, Mary
- Utgivningsår
- 1970
- Omfång
- 168 sidor
- Språk
- English
