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Mary Norton (1) (1903–1992)

Autor(a) de The Borrowers

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Obras por Mary Norton

The Borrowers (1952) 8,351 exemplares
The Borrowers Afloat (1959) 2,439 exemplares
The Borrowers Afield (1955) 2,436 exemplares
Bedknob and Broomstick (1943) 1,562 exemplares
The Borrowers Avenged (1982) 1,502 exemplares
The Borrowers Aloft (1961) 1,496 exemplares
Are All the Giants Dead? (1975) 256 exemplares
Borrowers Collection (1997) 148 exemplares
The Borrowers [1997 film] (1997) 69 exemplares
The Borrowers Omnibus (1970) 62 exemplares
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) 46 exemplares
The Bread and Butter Stories (1998) 44 exemplares

Associated Works

Bedknobs and Broomsticks [1971 film] (1971) — Original book — 426 exemplares
Poems of Childhood (1896) — Ilustrador, algumas edições309 exemplares
Arrietty [2010 film] (2010) — Original book — 232 exemplares
The Young Folks' Shelf of Books, Volume 03: Magic in the Air (1962) — Contribuidor — 162 exemplares
Over the Rainbow Tales of Fantasy and Imagination (1983) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
A Golden Land (1958) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
The Borrowers: Series 1 [1992 TV mini series] (1992) — Original book — 17 exemplares
Chosen for Children (1957) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 5, January 1976 (1976) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Norton, Mary
Nome legal
Norton, Kathleen Mary
Outros nomes
Pearson, Kathleen Mary (birth)
Data de nascimento
1903-12-10
Data de falecimento
1992-08-29
Localização do túmulo
St Nectan's Churchyard, Hartland, Devon, England, UK
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK
País (no mapa)
England, UK
Local de nascimento
London, England, UK
Local de falecimento
Bideford, Devon, England, UK
Causa da morte
stroke
Locais de residência
Hartland, Devon, England, UK
Ocupações
children's book author
Organizações
British War Office
British Purchasing Commission
Prémios e menções honrosas
Carnegie Medal (1952)
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1960)

Membros

Críticas

I'm going to start my review with a digression. Often parents will ask children's librarians some form of this question: "Can you help me find books for my second grader who reads at an eighth grade level?" What they want is something challenging, but not too mature. Most times, I point these parents towards classics. Children's books written before, say, 1960 (if they're still in print) tend to be wholesome and full of unfamiliar words and complex sentence structures. So, bingo! There you have it. (I will also tell parents that just because their kid reads at an eighth level, doesn't mean they shouldn't be reading good books for second graders.)

The Borrowers definitely falls into this wholesome/challenging classics genre. I chose it for my middle grade book club this summer because it matches our theme (Dig Into Reading!) and because I have some smart cookies in the group and I want to see if they enjoy a book with a very different kind of appeal than most of the books I pick (our other books this summer were [b:Holes|38709|Holes (Holes, #1)|Louis Sachar|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327781893s/38709.jpg|1679789] and [b:Gregor the Overlander|262430|Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1)|Suzanne Collins|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1173234171s/262430.jpg|524491]).

Though I shouldn't have been, I was surprised at how deep this book was. I especially liked this exchange (from page 84 of my copy):

"...Borrower's don't steal."
"Except from human beings," said the boy.
Arrietty burst out laughing; she laughed so much that she had to hide her face in the primrose. "Oh dear," she gasped with tears in her eyes, "you are funny!" She stared upward at his puzzled face. "Human beans are for Borrowers - like bread's for butter!"

This is an amazing lesson on perspective. Still, I only gave the book three stars because I didn't fall in love with it. I enjoyed it, and was impressed by it, but it didn't have the magic for me. Maybe because I'm a grown-up and I never read it as a child.
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LibrarianDest | 124 outras críticas | Jan 3, 2024 |
Uprooted once again, the little people journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood.
 
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PlumfieldCH | 14 outras críticas | Dec 9, 2023 |
The Clock family--Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty--are tiny people who live underneath the kitchen floor of an English manor. All their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to champagne cork chairs, are "borrowed" from the "human beans" who tromp around loudly above them. All is well until Pod is spotted upstairs by a human boy! Can the Clocks stay nested safely in their beloved hidden home, or will they be forced to flee?
 
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PlumfieldCH | 124 outras críticas | Dec 7, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
29
Also by
10
Membros
19,602
Popularidade
#1,112
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
232
ISBN
404
Línguas
17
Marcado como favorito
2

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