The Borrowers

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A Puffin Book
- stories that last a lifetime Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo A Puffin Book There are 20 titles to collect in the series listed below all with exciting new covers & fun-filled endnotes 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 & think that human beings were invented just to do the dirty work Arrietty's father Pod was an expert Borrower He could scale curtains using a hatpin & 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 & then something happened which changed their lives She made friends with the human boy living in the house' Beautifully written poetic & almost always alarming the Borrowers have something very mysterious sad & exciting about them'
- Sunday Times Mary Norton was born in 1903 & 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) & The Borrowers Avenged (1982) Poor Stainless was the last Borrowers story Mary Norton wrote She died in 1992 Also available in A Puffin Book GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM & BACK HOME by Michelle Magorian CHARLOTTE'S WEB STUART LITTLE & THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E B White THE BORROWERS by Mary Norton STIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D Taylor A DOG SO SMALL by Philippa Pearce GOBBOLINO by Ursula Moray Williams CARRIE'S WAR by Nina Bawden MRS FRISBY & THE RATS OF NIMH by Richard C O' Brien A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L' Engle THE CAY by Theodore Taylor TARKA THE OTTER by Henry Williamson WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams SMITH by Leon Garfield THE NEVERENDING STORY by Michael Ende ANNIE by Thomas Meehan THE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET by Eve Garnett