Edward Eager’s Half Magic (1954)

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Edward Eager's Half Magic (1954) Illus. N.M. Bodecker Harcourt Brace & Company, 1985 Countless times, I borrowed the school library's copy of this book but, to be honest, I don't remember which, if any, of its sequels I read. I do know that I borrowed some of them, too, when

Edward Eager’s Half Magic (1954)2014-03-14T19:42:54-04:00

Mary Norton’s The Borrowers Avenged (1982)

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Mary Norton's The Borrowers Avenged (1982) Illus. Beth and Joe Krush Harcourt Inc, 1998 Had I been a loyal follower of this series in the 1950s and 1960s when they were published, I'd've been hard pressed to wait 16 years for the next volume of Mary Norton's borrowers' stories. As

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Mary Norton’s Poor Stainless (1966)

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Mary Norton's Poor Stainless (1966) Also included in the Odyssey Classic edition of The Borrowers Aloft (originally published in 1961 and republished in 1998) is the short tale, Poor Stainless. This was originally published as a separate volume in 1966, presented as a tale that Homily tells Arrietty,  something that happened

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Mary Norton’s The Borrowers Aloft (1961)

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Mary Norton's The Borrowers Aloft (1961) Illus. Beth and Joe Krush Harcourt Inc, 1998 There is no sign of Mrs. May in the fourth volume of Mary Norton's series about the Clock family. Instead, the story introduces us to Mr. Pott, an old railway man who has lost a leg

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Mary Norton’s The Borrowers Afloat (1959)

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Mary Norton's The Borrowers Afloat (1959) Illus. Beth and Joe Krush Harcourt Inc, 1990 It was Mrs. May who first told Kate about the borrowers (although it wasn't Mrs. May who had seen them, but her brother, when he was still alive, and just a boy). It's possible she doesn't

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