The Borrowers

Mary Norton

Apr 2003 · Borrowers Book 1 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

The Borrowers—the Clock family: Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise—are tiny people who live underneath the kitchen floor of an old English country manor. All their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to champagne cork chairs, are “borrowed” from the “human beans” who tromp around loudly above them. All is well until Pod is spotted upstairs by a human boy! Can the Clocks stay nested safely in their beloved hidden home, or will they be forced to flee? The British author Mary Norton won the Carnegie Medal for The Borrowers in 1952, the year it was first published in England.

Ratings and reviews

Its really slow, so I reccomend this is older children, such as ages 13 and up! I was 8 and it was boring when I read this, probably because the dialougue is older than what we use now!

This people are so tiny. No bigger than my thumb. My book is The Borrowers.

This is a great book.

About the author

Mary Norton (1903-1992) lived in England, where she was an actress, playwright, and award-winning author of the classic Borrowers novels.