The Borrowers: Fiftieth-Anniversary Gift Edition

The Borrowers: Fiftieth-Anniversary Gift Edition
by Mary Norton, Diana Stanley

The Borrowers: Fiftieth-Anniversary Gift Edition
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Author: Diana Stanley, Mary Norton
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2003-10-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books

Summary of The Borrowers: Fiftieth-Anniversary Gift Edition

This is the classic story--read and loved by children all over the world--of Pod, Homily, and their daughter, Arrietty, who live under the kitchen floor in a quiet, half-empty house and get their livelihood by borrowing from the ?human beans.? ?Delectable fantasy.?--Booklist

Anyone who has ever entertained the notion of "little people" living furtively among us will adore this artfully spun classic. The Borrowers--a Carnegie Medal winner, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award book, and an ALA Distinguished Book--has stolen the hearts of thousands of readers since its 1953 publication. Mary Norton (1903-1993) creates a make-believe world in which tiny people live hidden from humankind beneath the floorboards of a quiet country house in England.

Pod, Homily, and daughter Arrietty of the diminutive Clock family outfit their subterranean quarters with the tidbits and trinkets they've "borrowed" from "human beans," employing matchboxes for storage and postage stamps for paintings. Readers will delight in the resourceful way the Borrowers recycle household objects. For example, "Homily had made her a small pair of Turkish bloomers from two glove fingers for 'knocking about in the mornings.'"

The persistent pilfering goes undetected until a boy (with a ferret!) comes to live in the country house. Curiosity drives Arrietty to commit the worst mistake a Borrower can make: she allows herself to be seen. This engaging, sometimes hair-raisingly suspenseful adventure is recounted in the kind, eloquent voice of narrator Mrs. May, whose brother might--just might--have seen an actual Borrower in the country house many years ago. (Ages 9 to 12)

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