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About The Borrowers by M. Norton Chpts 1-5
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Uploaded | This story was written by Mary Norton. It is about very little people. They are called borrowers. They borrow from us. | |
Uploaded | When Kate was a young girl she had a friend named Mrs. May. Mrs. May lived with Kate's family. | |
Uploaded | Kate spent time talking to her. Mrs. May taught her how to crochet. This is a special way to make things with yarn. | |
Uploaded | One day Kate could not find her crochet hook. It is a tool used to make blankets from yarn. It was right here. Where did it go? | |
Uploaded | Mrs. May said the house must be full of borrowers. What is a borrower? Kate asked her to please, please tell her the story. | |
Uploaded | Have you ever lost something? Something that you just had? The borrowers may have taken it. | |
Uploaded | When Mrs. May was a little girl her brother told her this story. He had been sick and was sent to this house to get better. | |
Uploaded | In this house was a very old, very big, grandfather clock. Under the clock was a small hole. | |
Uploaded | The borrowers lived in the clock. Pod, the dad, Homily, the mom, and Arrietty, the daughter. Their last name was Clock. | |
Uploaded | In this house lived Great Aunt Sophy. She was sick and spent all her time in bed. | |
Uploaded | This meant that it was easy for the borrowers to move around the house and not get caught. | |
Uploaded | The borrowers used postage stamps for wallpaper and doll furniture to sit on. | |
Uploaded | The house had a garden and trees. But the borrowers could only look out the small grate on the side of the house. | |
Uploaded | It was dangerous to go outside! Arrietty would look out the window and dream about the word outside. | |
Uploaded | Arrietty loves to write in her diary. She writes about things that she does and how she feels in this little book. | |
Uploaded | Homily is worried. Pod has gone to borrow a new teacup. Arrietty broke one a few days ago. Pod is late? Is he in trouble? | |
Uploaded | Pod makes it back. He is safe! The tiny teacup was in a doll house upstairs in the house. | |
Uploaded | But Pod has bad news. He was seen! A boy saw him trying to climb down a curtain. | |
Uploaded | Pod and Homily tell Arrietty that long ago some of their family was seen by people in the house. They had to leave the house . | |
Uploaded | Arrietty wonders. What happened to the other family? Why is it so dangerous in the house? |