The complete collection of the classic Borrowers stories by Mary Norton.
Arietty Clock isn’t your typical little girl. Although she is little.
Very little, in fact. She’s a Borrower. She lives with her family in a large house that isn’t technically theirs – it belongs to the ‘human beans’.
Arietty and her father, Pod, spend their days borrowing the human beans’ possessions – her father is very good at borrowing. He can scale curtains using a hatpin and bring back a doll’s teacup without breaking it! The Borrowers are very happy with their life and borrowing ways. Until Arietty makes friends with a boy.
A human bean boy. And from that moment, danger is never far away. Can they avoid the great disaster of ‘being seen’?
‘Beautifully written, poetic and almost always alarming, the Borrowers books have something very mysterious, sad and exciting about them.’ Sunday Times
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