The Borrowers

Description

Product ID:	9780141804712
Product Form:	CD-Audio
Country of Manufacture:	DE
Series:	A Puffin Book
Title:	The Borrowers
Authors:	Author: Mary Norton
Subjects:	Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 9 years
Description:	Select Guide Rating Pod, Homily and Arrietty are a family of tiny people who live beneath the floor. Everything they have is borrowed from the "human beans" who don't even know they exist. Arrietty, the only child, is allowed to go borrowing, but ends up making friends with "the boy upstairs". Penguin presents the ABRIDGED audiobook edition of The Borrowers by Mary Norton, read by Samantha Bond. 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 borrowing, something happens which changes their lives. Arrietty makes friends with ''the boy upstairs''.
Imprint Name:	Puffin
Publisher Name:	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2003-03-06

Weight	178 g
Dimensions	125 × 142 × 24 mm