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The Borrowers
Mary Norton
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Description for The Borrowers
paperback. Arrietty's father, Pod, was an expert Borrower. He could scale curtains using a hatpin, and bring back a doll's teacup without breaking it. Girls weren't supposed to go borrowing but as Arrietty was an only child her father broke the rule, and then something happened which changed their lives. Series: A Puffin Book. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 138 x 201 x 17. Weight in Grams: 162.
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'Don't move!' said a voice, and the voice, like the eye, was enormous but somehow, hushed - and hoarse like a surge of wind through the grating on a stormy night in March. Arrietty froze. 'So this is it,' she thought, 'the worst and most terrible thing of all: I have been "seen"!
The Borrowers live in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. They own nothing, borrow everything, and never forget their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Puffin Classics
Condition
New
Series
A Puffin Book
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141354866
SKU
9780141354866
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Mary Norton
Mary Norton was born in 1903 and brought up in a house in Bedfordshire, which was to become the setting for The Borrowers. First published in 1952, The Borrowers was an immediate success, winning the Library Association's Carnegie Medal. There followed four more Borrowers books: The Borrowers Afield (1955), The Borrowers Afloat (1959), The Borrowers Aloft (1961) and The Borrowers ... Read more
Reviews for The Borrowers
Beautifully written, poetic and almost always alarming, the Borrowers have something very mysterious, sad and exciting about them
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