The Borrowers
The Borrowers – Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise – are tiny people. They don’t live your average, ordinary place. Instead, they live underneath the kitchen floor of an old English country manor.
They borrow all their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to cork chairs, from the “human beans” who tromp around loudly above them.
All is well until a human boy spots Pod upstairs! Can the Clocks stay nested safely in their beloved hidden home, or will the “human beans” force them to flee?
The British author Mary Norton won the Carnegie Medal for The Borrowers in 1952, the year she first published it in England. This paperback edition still includes the delightful original black-and-white illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush inside.
A enchanting and enduring children’s classic, this award-winning book tells the tale of three tiny people who are big heroes. A charmer!
Awards: 1952 Carnegie Medal, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award Book.
