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The Borrowers

The Borrowers Paperback - 1993

by Mary Norton


About this book

The Borrowers is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton about tiny people who "borrow" things from normal humans and keep their existence unknown. The central characters are the Clock family: father Pod, mother Homily, and their spirited thirteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty. Published in 1952, it won the Carnegie Medal for that year and was selected in 2007 by judges of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children's literature as one of the ten most important children's novels of the past 70 years.

First Edition Identification

The Borrowers was first published by J. M. Dent & Sons., London in 1952.

Details

  • Title The Borrowers
  • Author Mary Norton
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 163
  • Publisher Puffin, England
  • Date 1993
  • ISBN 9780140381276