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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.
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The Borrowers (Hardcover, Library binding)
Mary Norton; Illustrated by Diana Stanley, Beth Krush, Joe Krush; Foreword by Leonard S Marcus
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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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