The Borrowers Aloft: With the Short Tale Poor Stainless
Mary Norton
224 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0152047344
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Language: English
Publish: April 1, 2003
AdventureBritish LiteratureChildrensClassicsFantasyFictionJuvenileMiddle GradeYoung AdultYoung Readers
Pod, Homily and Arrietty Clock – the family of tiny Borrowers – think they have at last found an ideal home. They’ve moved into a house in a miniature village built as a hobby by a retired railroad man. The village is the perfect size for Borrowers, and after the hardships they’ve faced, the Clocks gratefully settle into the luxury of having a “proper” house. The easy life makes them careless.
Or rather, it makes Arrietty careless. She befriends a “human bean,” and the next thing Arrietty knows, she and her family have been kidnapped. Their captors are a greedy married couple, called the Platters, who have big plans for the little people. They have created their own miniature village in a glass case and plan to imprison the Borrowers within – like animals in a zoo – for the rest of their lives.
Also features the short Borrowers tale Poor Stainless