![]() ![]() The atmosphere and the feeling of it it's just like the tales I used to read when I was child: those big illustrated books about elves, fairies and gnomes that live in our gardens. If you, like me, are an adult who enjoys reading children books, loves studio Ghibli and grew up reading fairytales, you should give this book a try. One day, her dad brings her along while going for an errand, and that's when she meets a boy, a human boy, with whom she starts a very odd friendship. ![]() Arrietty is one of them, she lives with her mom and dad and no one else: she doesn't know anyone her age and so she's often bored and dreams of seeing the world. There are little people who live beneath the kitchen floor, inside the walls, behind cupboards and clocks: they call themselves the "Borrowers", because everything they need they "borrow" from us human beans. "Human beans are for Borrowers - like bread's for butter!” "Oh dear," she gasped with tears in her eyes, "you are funny!" She stared upward at his puzzled face. ![]() "Except from human beings," said the boy.Īrrietty burst out laughing she laughed so much that she had to hide her face in the primrose. ![]()
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