About this item
The Borrowers - the Clock family: Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise - are tiny people who live underneath the kitchen floor of an old English country manor. All their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to champagne cork chairs, are "borrowed" from the "human beans" who tromp around loudly above them. All is well until Pod is spotted upstairs by a human boy! Can the Clocks stay nested safely in their beloved hidden home, or will they be forced to flee? The British author Mary Norton won the Carnegie Medal for The Borrowers in 1952, the year it was first published in England. This repackaged paperback edition still has the delightful original black-and-white illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush inside. A charmer!
About the Author
Mary Norton, or Kathleen Mary Norton née Pearson (10 December 1903 - 29 August 1992) , was an English author of children's books. She is best known for the The Borrowers series of low fantasy novels (1952 to 1982) , which is named after its first book and, in turn, the tiny people who live secretly in the midst of contemporary human civilisation.Norton won the 1952 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising The Borrowers as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007 it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
