It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them' (19.15). May explains to Kate that 'stories never really end. Driver catches him and pulls a wicked stepmother, locking the poor guy in his room. But just as he's grabbing some supplies, mean Mrs. The boy rushes to tell the Borrowers that he'll help them escape to the great outdoors. She and the grumpy gardener, Crampfurl, discover the borrowers' home, and threaten to call the police and the exterminator. Driver, the cook, realizes that things are going missing. And so begins a beautiful friendship of borrowing. Instead of being the catastrophe the family thinks it will be, the boy brings gifts: furniture from the dollhouse to decorate their home. That night, when Homily, Pod, and Arrietty are in bed, the roof suddenly lifts off their house. Pod tells his daughter that 'human beans' (that's borrower-speak for 'human beings') are not to be trusted-and now they are in great danger. Things go great for a while, until Pod catches Arrietty and the boy hanging out. A huge human eye that belongs to a boy.Īrrietty and the boy don't get off to the best start, but they soon become friends. Sunlight! Grass! Shoe-scrapers! She wanders off on her own until she encounters an eye. Meow.Īrrietty can't believe how amazing the world upstairs is. But they agree when they realize that Arrietty's wanderlust might make her do something stupid-like escape on her own like her cousin, Eggletina (who got eaten by a cat). Arrietty wants to go upstairs and learn how to be a borrower with her father.Īrrietty's parents are not happy with this, especially because the last time Pod went borrowing, he got 'seen' by a human. She wants adventure! Excitement!Īnd that can only mean one thing. Arrietty loves to write in her mini diary (which is as big as she is), but she can't help but feel kind of cooped up living with her parents. Pod and Homily furnish their house with the stuff they 'borrow' from upstairs: letters to wallpaper their room, postage stamps to hang on their wall, and old chess pieces that they use as statues. May's brother was recovering from an illness, there was a very big grandfather clock, and below the clock there was a hole, home to three borrowers: little Arrietty, her mother, Homily, and her father, Pod. It seems that in the great big house where Mrs. May to tell the story of how she first heard of the little people called borrowers from her brother. Not borrowers! Anything but borrowers! Wait a minute, what in the world are they? Kate begs Mrs. May says, the house must be full of borrowers. Where did that crochet hook go? It was just over here a minute ago.

May, a nice old lady who lives with her when… wait a minute. A spunky little girl named Kate is making a quilt with Mrs.

Adventures of the borrowers