The Complete Borrowers
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The Complete Borrowers
The complete collection of the classic Borrowers stories by Mary Norton.
The Borrowers live in the secret places of quiet old houses - behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. Everything they have is borrowed from the 'human beans', who don't even know they exist. But then young Arrietty makes friends with a boy - a 'human bean' - and from that moment, danger is never far away for, above all else, they must avoid the great disaster of 'being seen'.
In The Borrowers Afield, the Pod family escape to the fields where their cousins live, but it's a long and dangerous journey.
In The Borrowers Afloat, Arrietty looks forward to a life away from the dark country cottage, to one full of sunshine.
In The Borrowers Aloft, the family are now living in the model village of Little Fordham. All they have to do is avoid being seen by the visitors.
In The Borrowers Avenged, Pod, Homily and Arrietty have managed to escape with the help of Spiller. They move into the old rectory where they live happily until the Potters come looking for them.
Poor Stainless - Young Stainless, a Borrower boy, goes missing on a mission to borrow some parsley and an enormous search ensues.
Series: A Puffin Book
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The Complete Borrowers by Mary Norton is praised for its beautiful writing and poetic nature, combining an exciting and mysterious narrative with a sense of underlying sadness that captivates readers.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241340370
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 June 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Puffin
Illustration: black and white line
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 56.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 650g
Pages: 944
About the Author
Mary Norton was born in 1903 and brought up in a house in Bedfordshire, which was to become the setting for The Borrowers. First published in 1952, The Borrowers was an immediate success, winning the Library Association's Carnegie Medal. There followed four more Borrowers books- The Borrowers Afield (1955), The Borrowers Afloat (1959), The Borrowers Aloft (1961) and The Borrowers Avenged (1982). Poor Stainless was the last Borrowers story that Mary Norton wrote. She died in 1992.
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