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The borrowers / Mary Norton.

By: Norton, Mary [author.]Contributor(s): Bailey, Siân [illustrator.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Puffin, 2014Copyright date: ©1952Description: 214 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141354866Subject(s): Borrowers (Fictitious characters) | Borrowers (Fictitious characters) -- Juvenile fiction | Families -- Juvenile fiction | Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction | Children's storiesGenre/Form: Fiction. | Juvenile works. DDC classification: 823.914 Summary: 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, and 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, and 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, and then something happened which changed their lives. She made friends with the human boy living in the house.

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First published by J.M. Dent & Sons 1952.

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, and 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, and 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, and then something happened which changed their lives. She made friends with the human boy living in the house.

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