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“It's so awful and sad,” she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, “to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.” Arrietty and her family of Borrowers have escaped from their cozy home and are now afield. They find a temporary shelter inside an old booth, and spend some weeks in the wilderness. T Leggi tutto

It's too bad that this series of books about little people is in such danger of being dismissed as a cute or trite children's fairy story. They certainly shouldn't be described in that way. Once you can suspend your disbelief in the existence of small people living in and amongst normal humans, the

Jestem trochę rozczarowana. W porównaniu z pierwszą częścią ta wypada dość słabo. Język i styl Norton w parze z umiejętnością tworzenia przytulnego klimaciku nie zawodzą, ale fabuła już tak. W książce mało co się dzieje. Można powiedzieć, że jedynie początek i koniec jest ciekawy, a środek - choć dł Leggi tutto

It had been a year since Mrs. May told young Kate the story of the borrowers. Since that time, Kate had completely pushed their memory to the farthest corner of her mind until one early spring day when Mrs. May slipped her a letter and said, “This will interest you, Kate, I think.” And indeed it had Leggi tutto

I love the way these books have such an awareness of unreliable narrators, and of oral stories, for all that they're written down. First of all The Boy through Mrs May through Kate, and then Arriety through Tom Goodenough through Kate... There's so much uncertainty about whether it is or isn't a sto Leggi tutto

Loved book 2 more then book 1 so that was a plus! Great way of telling a story and mind really was seeing everything happening. I had so much fun reading this book!

So much fun, and so much more tense, as they venture out of their safe home!

În această continuare a poveștii din *„Omuleții”*, micuții oameni Arrietty, Homily și Pod – membrii familiei Clock – sunt forțați să părăsească locuința lor din casa mare a oamenilor, după ce sunt descoperiți. Acum trăiesc **"sub cerul liber"**, adică în natură, un loc cu totul necunoscut pentru ei. Leggi tutto