Diana Stanley Livres

Beneath the kitchen floor is the world of the Borrowers -- Pod and Homily Clock and their daughter, Arrietty. In their tiny home, matchboxes double as roomy dressers and postage stamps hang on the walls like paintings. Whatever the Clocks need they simply "borrow" from the "human beans" who live above them. It's a comfortable life, but boring if you're a kid. Only Pod is allowed to venture into the house above, because the danger of being seen by a human is too great. Borrowers who are seen by humans are never seen again. Yet Arrietty won't listen. There is a human boy up there, and Arrietty is desperate for a friend.

The Borrowers are homeless again. The gamekeeper's cottage, their latest refuge, is being closed up. Luckily their friend Spiller comes to the rescue and introduces them to a new home by the river, in a kettle

Driven out of their cozy house by the rat catcher, the Borrowers find themselves homeless. Worse, they are lost and alone in a frightening new world: the outdoors. Nearly everything outside -- cows, moths, field mice, cold weather -- is a life-threatening danger for the Borrowers. But as they bravely journey across country in search of a new home and learn how to survive in the wild, Pod, Homily, and their daughter, Arrietty, discover that the world beyond their old home has more joy, drama, and people than they'd ever imagined.

Wenn es im Haus knackt, ist das nicht immer das Holz, das arbeitet. Und wenn auf unerklärliche Weise immer wieder Dinge des alltäglichen Lebens einfach verschwinden, dann sind das keine unerklärlichen Phänomene. Es sind die Borger! Zehn Zentimeter kleine Leute mit großem Herzen, die in den Häusern ihrer menschlichen Gastfamilien unter Dielenbrettern oder in Hohlräumen der Wände leben und sich borgen, was sie so für ihr Leben alles brauchen. Socken werden zu Betten, Briefmarken zu Postern und Zahnseide zum Kletterseil.