The Borrowers

 I read a book which was named The Borrowers. The book tells about very small people, who are called The Borrowers. I chose the book, because it was very short and seemed easy to read. The story is kind of a childish one, and I think it's mainly meant to younger people than I. Still, I liked the book more than I expected, the story was humorous and reading wasn't hard at all.
	The original The Borrowers- books are written by Mary Norton. There is a TV serie made from those books, and the book I read was a novelization from one episode of that TV serie. This novelization was made by Sherwood Smith. I haven't ever heard before about any of those people behind TV serie, or those books, and also, not anything from The Borrowers. So I didn't have any great, or bad expectations.
	The original The Borrowers-story was written by Mary Norton, who was born in London in 1903, and brought up in Bedfordshire, which was the setting for The Borrowers.In 1941 she was given a war job in America, and worked for two years for the British Purchasing Commission in New York. It was during this time that she began to write. After the war, she moved back to England with her family and continued writing and acting. Mary Norton died in 1992. Other book serie written by her is Bedknop and Broomstick.
					Mary Norton (1903 – 1992)

	The story in the book takes mainly place in an old house owned by the Lender family, and in the same house lives the Clock family, who are Borrowers. There's also some chapters in the story that take place in other locations, such as the chapters at bad lawyer Ocious P. Potters office,at the milk factory and at the Town Hall. Most important place is the old house, the Borrowers and the Lender family try to keep it and that's what the whole book is based on. The town the story takes place in is the same town that writer Mary Norton had grown in.
	Because the story is basically a novel, it follows clearly those often seen ”four stages”, 
at the beginning characters are introduced, and the story begins to develop,  and it is told to the reader, that who The Borrowers are. Then the complication part,  the bad lawyer enters the story.
Then follows clearly the climax part, and then the happy end. There's some too childish parts in the story for my taste, but it was although quite fun to read.