The Borrowers
The Borrowers – the Clock family: Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise – are tiny people who live underneath the kitchen floor of an old English country manor. All their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to champagne cork chairs, are "borrowed" from the "human beans" who tromp around loudly above them. All is well until Pod is spotted upstairs by a human boy! Can the Clocks stay nested safely in their beloved hidden home, or will they be forced to flee?
Carnegie Medal (1952); Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1960)
About the Borrowers Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Borrowers(1952)
- 2.The Borrowers Afield(1954)
- 3.The Borrowers Afloat(1959)
- 4.The Borrowers Aloft(1961)
- 5.The Borrowers Avenged(1982)
Reading age: 7+ years
This series should be read in order.
Beneath the kitchen floor is the world of the Borrowers – Pod and Homily Clock and their daughter, Arrietty. In their tiny home, matchboxes double as roomy dressers and postage stamps hang on the walls like paintings. Whatever the Clocks need they simply "borrow" from the "human beans" who live above them. It's a comfortable life, but boring if you're a kid. Only Pod is allowed to venture into the house above, because the danger of being seen by a human is too great. Borrowers who are seen by humans are never seen again. Yet Arrietty won't listen. There is a human boy up there, and Arrietty is desperate for a friend.