The Borrowers - Couverture souple

Norton, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0152047379 ISBN 13 : 9780152047375

Editeur : HMH Books for Young Readers, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Norton Mary

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Borrowers—the Clock family: Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise—are tiny people who live underneath the kitchen floor of an old English country manor. All their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to champagne cork chairs, are “borrowed” from the “human beans” who tromp around loudly above them. All is well until Pod is spotted upstairs by a human boy! Can the Clocks stay nested safely in their beloved hidden home, or will they be forced to flee? The British author Mary Norton won the Carnegie Medal for The Borrowers in 1952, the year it was first published in England. This repackaged paperback edition still has the delightful original black-and-white illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush inside. A charmer! Awards: 1952 Carnegie Medal, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award Book Don’t miss the other classics in the Borrowers series: The Borrowers Afield, The Borrowers Afloat, The Borrowers Aloft, and The Borrowers Avenged.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Mary Norton was born in 1903 and brought up in a house in Bedfordshire, which was to become the setting for The Borrowers. First published in 1952, The Borrowers was an immediate success, winning the Library Association's Carnegie Medal. There followed four more Borrowers books: The Borrowers Afield (1955), The Borrowers Afloat (1959), The Borrowers Aloft (1961) and The Borrowers Avenged (1982). Poor Stainless was the last Borrowers story Mary Norton wrote. She died in 1992.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0152047379
• ISBN 13: 9780152047375
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Illustrateur: Krush Beth, Krush Joe