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The Borrowers Afield is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton, published in 1955 by Dent in the UK and Harcourt in the US. It was the second of five books in a series that is usually called The Borrowers , inaugurated by The Borrowers in 1952.
All five Borrowers novels feature the Clock family; Pod, Homily and Arrietty. In the first book they live in a house reportedly based on The Cedars where Norton was raised. [5] The sequels are titled alliteratively and alphabetically: The Borrowers Afield (1955), The Borrowers Afloat (1959), The Borrowers Aloft (1961), and The Borrowers Avenged ...
Kathleen Mary Norton (née Pearson; 10 December 1903 – 29 August 1992), known professionally as Mary Norton, was an English writer of children's books. [1] She is best known for The Borrowers series of low fantasy novels (1952 to 1982), which is named after its first book and, in turn, the tiny people who live secretly in the midst of contemporary human civilisation.
The Borrowers Aloft is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton, published in 1961 by Dent in the UK and Harcourt in the US. It was the fourth of five books in a series that is usually called The Borrowers , inaugurated by The Borrowers in 1952.
The Borrowers is a British TV miniseries first broadcast in 1992 on BBC2 and then later on American television station TNT.The series is divided into six parts, and 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).
The Borrowers Afield; The Borrowers Afloat; The Borrowers Aloft; The Borrowers Avenged; The Borrowers (1973 film) The Borrowers (1992 TV series) The Borrowers (1997 ...
The Book of the Dead (novel) The Borrowers Afield; The Bride Test; Brisingr; The Broken Empire Trilogy; Brothers (Goldman novel) The Burning God; The Burning Maze;
The Return of the Borrowers is a BBC TV children's programme first broadcast in 1993 on BBC2 and then later on American television station TNT. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The series is adapted from the third and fourth novels of author Mary Norton 's The Borrowers series: The Borrowers Afloat (1959) and The Borrowers Aloft (1961), respectively.