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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. This repackaged paperback edition still has the delightful original black-and-white illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush inside. A charmer Awards: 1952 Carnegie Medal, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award BookDon't miss the other classics in the Borrowers series: The Borrowers Afield, The Borrowers Afloat, The Borrowers Aloft, and The Borrowers Avenged.
Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been
thrilling children young and old for fifty years--and their appeal
is as strong as ever in these handsome new paperback packages.
While the original beloved interior illustrations by Beth and Joe
Krush have been retained, Marla Frazee's striking cover
illustrations capture these little people with a larger-than-life
appeal.
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"
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