{"product_id":"the-borrowers-a-puffin-book","title":"The Borrowers (A Puffin Book)","description":"A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime.\n\nPuffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20  titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes.\n\nThe 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...\n\n'Beautifully written, poetic and almost always alarming, the Borrowers have something very mysterious, sad and exciting about them' - Sunday Times\n\nMary 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). Poor Stainless was the last Borrowers story Mary Norton wrote. She died in 1992.\n\nAlso available in A Puffin Book: \nGOODNIGHT MISTER TOM and BACK HOME by Michelle Magorian  \nCHARLOTTE'S WEB, STUART LITTLE and THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E. B. White   \nTHE BORROWERS by Mary Norton\nSTIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King\nROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D. Taylor\nA DOG SO SMALL by Philippa Pearce\nGOBBOLINO by Ursula Moray Williams\nCARRIE'S WAR by Nina Bawden\nMRS FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH by Richard C O'Brien\nA WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L'Engle\nTHE CAY by Theodore Taylor\nTARKA THE OTTER by Henry Williamson\nWATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams\nSMITH by Leon Garfield\nTHE NEVERENDING STORY by Michael Ende\nANNIE by Thomas Meehan\nTHE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET by Eve Garnett","brand":"Penguin Random House Children's UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39668082344021,"sku":"9780141354866N","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/f8bd3f17-244a-4c8d-b67f-ce8d2c38acaf.jpg?v=1644258203","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-borrowers-a-puffin-book","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}