This is another book that I read for
my children’s literature class. As an adult reading this book, I can see things
that I would not have seen as a child reading it. As a child reading this book,
the question “Are there little people living in my house?” would come to mind.
As an adult reading this book, one might question the gender/family roles of
the story.
Homily and Arrietty have never left their
home from under the kitchen floor boards. Only Pod is allowed to travel and
“borrow” from the “human beans”. You see, if Arrietty were a boy, she would
have already gone borrowing with her father. However, Pod is getting older and
is having trouble climbing up the curtains. On the night that he is seen by the
“boy”, Homily and Pod decide that it is time for Arrietty to learn to borrow.
This is just one subtext that you take from this book.
This is a good read for children and
adults.
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