The Borrowers Avenged

Extended Description and Notes

THE BORROWERS AVENGED is the fifth book in the Borrowers series. The Borrowers is a series of children's fantasy novels by Mary Norton about tiny people who live in the homes of big people and "borrow" things to survive while keeping their existence unknown. After their narrow escape from the Platters' attic in The Borrowers Aloft, Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock return to their miniature village. But it is no longer a safe refuge, and so once again the Borrowers must go looking for another place to live. But finding a new home is hard when you're running for your life. The villainous Platters wil not rest until they recapture the tiny family, and they hound the Clocks' every move. When the Borrowers finally do set up house under a window seat in an old rectory, it seems they have found safety at last - until the Platters turn up in the church one night, forcing the Borrowers into a final desperate struggle for their freedom. Mary Norton (née Pearson) was an English children's author. She was the daughter of a physician, and was raised in a Georgian house at the end of the High Street in Leighton Buzzard. The house now consists of part of Leighton Middle School, known within the school as The Old House, and was reportedly the setting of her novel The Borrowers. She married Robert C. Norton in 1927 and had four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. Her second husband was Lionel Boncey, who she married in 1970. She began working for the War Office in 1940 before the family moved temporarily to the United States. She began writing while working for the British Purchasing Commission in New York during the Second World War. Her first book was The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons published in 1943, which, together with the sequel Bonfires and Broomsticks, became the basis for the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Mary Norton died of a stroke in Devon, England in 1992.

Bookseller

heytotobooks (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

02032101KK

Title

The Borrowers Avenged

Author

Mary Norton

Illustrator

Beth and Joe Krush

Format/Binding

Trade Paperback

Book Condition

Used - Very Good

Quantity Available

1

Edition

1st thus/2nd printing

Binding

Paperback

ISBN 10

015210531X

ISBN 13

9780152105310

Publisher

Voyager/HBJ

Place of Publication

New York

Date Published

1982

Size

0.75 x 5.25 x 8"

Keywords

The Borrowers

Bookseller catalogs

Children's;

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