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 seriess made from those books, and the book I read was a novelization from one episode of that TV seriess. This novelization was made by Sherwood Smith. I haven't ever heard before about any of those people behind TV series, 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 series 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,  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.
	The main characters of the story were Pete Lender, the whole Clock family, and bad lawyer Ocious P. Potter. Pete Lender was a good-willing son of the Lender family, Borrowers were very small, helpful, human- like creatures, who help each other, and also they helped really much the whole Lender family.All Borrowers were quite suspicious about human beings, but when story moved on the Clock family became more and more close with Lender family.The bad lawyer Ocious P.Potter was a traditional ”bad guy”, who got finally humiliated really well.He was just plain evil.The narrator was not any of the stroy's characters, he was kind of a ”outsider”.
	The story was mainly about how all the Borrowers are kind of a ”one big family”, helping each other, and defeating the bad. And because the Lender family fas friendly to them, the Borrowers helped them too.The story was very happy, and of course, the good side won, as always in children's books. Story was clearly meant to children, but I don't see why an adult couldn't read it either.
	The language of this book was very easy to read and that's why,even that I nowadays don't read very much, it was quite fun to read that book. There were no any slang words or so, and I think that font of the text was also well choiced, it helped reading even more. There were also no cursing or other ”bad” language, because the book was clearly meant to children.
	I did like the whole book more than I expected. The story was childish, but quite fun and humorous. It was quite easy to expect, what happens next, but if I were 6-7 years younger, I think that it would not have been so obvious, and I would have been able to just ”jump” into the story.    The book was made from a TV series episode, and the pictures in the book were clearly took from that TV episode. The text was easy, and kind of a airy, but I think that it is well-liked by the audience it's meant to, and I think that means a bit younger people that I am. I would recommend that book to anyone, who is at least five years younger than I, or anyone who likes happy endings and does not think himself as an adult.