by Mary Norton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780706247824
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«The Borrowers (Take Part)» is Mary Norton's children's novel in a school edition, published by Ward Lock Educational in paperback (64 pages, in English).
Under the floorboards of a house live the Borrowers: Pod, Homily and their daughter Arrietty, who supply themselves by «borrowing» objects from humans. Matchboxes serve them as furniture and stamps hang like pictures. Arrietty, in search of company, strikes up a friendship with a human boy, which may endanger the whole community.
First instalment of the «The Borrowers» saga. Original work published in 1952 and winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
Intended for young readers and for use as school reading in the classroom.
Kathleen Mary Norton was an English writer of children's books. She is best known for The Borrowers series of low fantasy novels, which is named after its first book and, in turn, the tiny people who live secretly in the midst of contemporary human civilisation.
