Childhood Favorites...The Borrowers

Childhood favorites. Everyone has a favorite book or author from childhood. A book that touched them or changed them. A book that perhaps initiated their love of reading and put them on the path of libraries and learning.

Childhood Favorites is a monthly series focusing on beloved books from the past. 

Have you ever had something go missing? An item you're certain you put away, but is no longer there? Perhaps it was borrowed?

The Borrowers. Little people who live in the walls and under the floorboards of your house. And if they need something, they just borrow it. They stay clear of the "human beans" and instead, somewhat coexist.

Pod, Homily and Arrietty Clock live in a house, under the clock. Their beds are matchboxes, their serving trays are bottle caps. The prints on their walls? Postage stamps. They live their lives trying to avoid the human beans above. Until the day lonely Arrietty meets a boy in the house.

Imagination is so important for children and this series of books captured mine intensely. I adored this series as a child. And it stayed with me. I internalized it so much, that I still imagine that the scarf I can't find is probably now the new carpet in the Borrowers living room. 

What about you? What is one of your childhood favorites?