Who here has actually read "The Borrowers"?

[Orionaut]

Found this buried in my Library after my recent house move and have started reading it again.

Last time must have been over 50 years ago.

It takes on a whole new meaning read as an adult. Like Watership Down, Borrowers is no more a children's story because it is about little people than Watership Down was a children's story because it was about Bunnies.

I am really enjoying it.

(It is actually really quite dark. Cousin (?) Eggletina was eaten by a Cat The young Arrietty has been confined underground behind numerous gates for her whole life and denied access to the daylight because she is an only child and her parents are terrified that if she is allowed out she will suffer the same fate)

 

[Rroff]

Pretty sure we had to read it at school - I remember absolutely nothing.

 

[Werewolf]

I can't remember if I read it or not, I suspect I must have done at some point given I grew up about 5-10 minutes from the house that was almost certainly the basis for the one in the book (Mary Norton lived there, and it's now part of a school).