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- From 9 to 11 years
- Paperback / softback | 224 pages
- 12.9 × 1.4 × 19.8 cm | 159
- 03 July 2014
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- United Kingdom
€11.20
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.
ISBN: 9780141354866
Book Format: Paperback / softback
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 12.9 × 1.4 × 19.8 cm
Mary Norton was born in 1903 and 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) and The Borrowers Avenged (1982). P oor Stainless was the last Borrowers story that Mary Norton wrote. She died in 1992.
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