Borrowers
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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.
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5 primary books6 released books#1 in The Borrowers
The Borrowers is a 6-book series with 5 primary works first released in 1900 with contributions by Mary Norton, Judith Elkin, and Sian Bailey.
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We have this edition [b:The Borrowers 348573 The Borrowers (The Borrowers, #1) Mary Norton https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1308945559l/348573.SX50.jpg 802336] in paperback and [b:The Borrowers 2176736 The Borrowers (The Borrowers #1) Mary Norton https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327893422l/2176736.SY75.jpg 802336] is also on the shelf as my daughter cannot decide which cover image she likes better. The later is mass market paperback vs. the standard paperback of the former. We have also been known to borrow it via Libby to read on the Kindle. This is a current, in progress read-aloud for the 2019-2010 read aloud year. [bc:The Borrowers 348573 The Borrowers (The Borrowers, #1) Mary Norton https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1308945559l/348573.SX50.jpg 802336][bc:The Borrowers 2176736 The Borrowers (The Borrowers #1) Mary Norton https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327893422l/2176736.SY75.jpg 802336]
