Norton also wrote The Magic Bed Knob and Bonfires and Broomsticks which were later jointly adapted into the film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.įind The Borrowers miniature world in the Enchanted Library and look for the 26 Characters photograph of Ted and Pandora Dewan as Pod and Arriety.įind The Borrowers mini world in the Enchanted Library. It won the Carnegie Medal in 1952, and in 2007 the CILIP Carnegie Medal judges listed it in the top 10 most important children’s novels in the past 70 years. Is the first in a series of five books and has been adapted for both film and television. Her childhood home inspired the setting for the novel. After working in the United States during the Second World War, she returned to England where she wrote The Borrowers. Kathleen Mary Norton (1983-1992) grew up in a Georgian house at the end of the High Street in Leighton Buzzard. The series is adapted from the 1952 Carnegie Medal -winning first novel 1 and the second novel of author Mary Norton 's The Borrowers series: The Borrowers and The Borrowers Afield (1955).

He loved The Borrowers because it seemed to him entirely feasible that there could be these people living in the walls and under the floors. The Borrowers is a BBC TV adaptation first broadcast in 1992 on BBC2 and then later on American television station TNT. Children love the idea of a tiny, hidden world.Īuthor and illustrator Ted Dewan chose to be photographed as Pod for our 26 Characters exhibition. While on a borrowing expedition she is seen by a human boy.Ī classic children’s story. Arriety Clock longs to go out borrowing with her father, Pod, who finally agrees to take her. They furnish their homes with things that they ‘borrow’ from the humans, stamps as pictures and cotton reels as stools. It was first published in the United States in 1953 where it also won accolades and was honored as an ALA Distinguished Book. Meet the Borrowers, tiny people living in the secret places of houses – behind the mantelpiece, under the kitchen clock. The Borrowers, the first of five books about the tiny people, was published in England in 1952 where it was honored with the annual Library Association Carnegie Medalfor outstanding children's literature.

The borrowers 1952