The Borrowers Five Paperback Books Boxed Set by Mary Norton

The Borrowers Five Paperback Books Boxed Set by Mary Norton Published by Scholastic Inc. New York 2001. Very Good pre-owned condition, a clean set with little wear. Five trade paperbacks in a nice condition slipcase. The Borrowers is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton about tiny people who "borrow" things from normal humans and keep their existence unknown. The central characters are the Clock family: father Pod, mother Homily, and their spirited thirteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty. Published in 1952, it won the Carnegie Medal for that year and was selected in 2007 by judges of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children's literature as one of the ten most important children's novels of the past 70 years.