Borrowers

Fascinating. Definitely read this too late to get the same enjoyment as a child would. Instead I kept getting swept up in possible themes: downsides of materialism; the perspective we're stuck in when we have limited experience of the world, and know only what family/community members tell us; the 1950s publishing date and the house wife who seems obsessed with making a pleasant home and terrified of the outside world- the only respectable option available to her?
Illustration style also uniquely disconcerting, the sketched lines go through objects, rather than halting to suggest when perspective would block view of a foot behind a table or pocket watch  beneath a foot as seen on the cover. It's done consistently enough that it seems a purposeful choice, rather than an unedited early draft mistake, it does add to the pleasantly cluttered look, if you don't look too close.