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Mary Norton was an author of children's books, she is best known for the series of novels The Borrowers. Norton's novels The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons and Bonfires and Broomsticks were adapted into the 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Norton's first two novels gave promise of the excellence of the books to come. The Borrowers, her third and greatest novel, was published in 1952 to almost instant critical acclaim.
Norton's skilled use of description plays an important part in the story's credibility. Articles small to human beings are presented as huge from a Borrower's point of view. Discarded sheets of writing paper are made into wallpaper; a wire fly swatter is transformed into a safety door, keeping their apartments safe against mice. Insects are the size of birds; a drop of dew is as large as a marble; a clump of wood violets and clover is a jungle.
Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.
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