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Kate: A "wild, untidy, self-willed little girl", 10 years of age. Kate learns of the Borrowers in the first book. In later books, a slightly older Kate makes a habit of trying to find out more clues of their existence. The Boy: A ten-year-old boy sent to recover from an illness at the country home of his great-aunt near Leighton Buzzard. As he ...
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.
The Return of the Borrowers: The 1993 sequel to The Borrowers, this BBC TV series starred Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton and Rebecca Callard. The series was adapted from the third and fourth books of the Borrowers series, The Borrowers Aloft and its predecessor The Borrowers Afloat. In this adaptation Mr and Mrs Platter come across the Clock Family ...
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.
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The Borrowers Avenged is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton, published in 1982 by Viking Kestrel in the UK [1] and Harcourt in the US. It was the last of five books in a series that is usually called The Borrowers , inaugurated by The Borrowers in 1952.
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.
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).