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The Borrowers

The Borrowers Paperback - 1998

by Norton, Mary

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London: Puffin Books. Very Good-. 1998. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light reading creases. ; Puffin Modern Classics edition with Afterword by Judith Elkin. Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. Cover art by David Kearney. ; B&W Illustrations; 164 pages; Pod, Homily and Arrietty are a family of tiny people who live beneath the floor. Everything they have is borrowed from the 'human beans' who don't even know they exist. Until the fateful day when Arrietty makes a friend. .
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  • Title The Borrowers
  • Author Norton, Mary
  • Illustrator Bailey, Sian
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint; First Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good-
  • Publisher Puffin Books, London
  • Date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 11654
  • ISBN 9780141303734

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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.

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