The Borrowers
- Compact Disc
3 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2003
Summary
Pod, Homily and Arrietty are a family of tiny people who live beneath the floor, behind the grandfather clock in the old rectory. They own nothing - everything they have is borrowed from the ‘human beans’ who don’t even know they exist. Arrietty’s father, Pod, is an expert borrower. He can scale curtains using a hatpin and bring back a doll’s teacup without breaking it. Girl’s aren’t supposed to go borrowing, but as Arrietty is an only child, Pod breaks the rules. But when she is in the house…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141804712 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141804718 |
| Author: | Mary Norton, Samantha Bond |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Compact Disc |
| Number of Pages: | 3 |
| Edition: | Abridged edition |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2003 |
| Weight: | 177g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 124mm x 25mm |
| Series: | A Puffin Book |
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About The Author
Mary Norton
MARY NORTON was born in London in 1903, and brought up in Bedfordshire, which was the setting for THE BORROWERS. In 1941 she was given a war job in America, and worked for two years for the British Purchasing Commission in New York. It was during this time that she began to write. After the war, she moved back to England with her family and continued writing and acting. Mary Norton died in 1992.
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