![]() The Borrowers tells the story of a family of little people who live beneath the kitchen floor of a deteriorating English country home. The success of the book led to five sequels, including The Borrowers Avenged, published in 1982, 30 years after the original. The Carnegie is the British equivalent of the American Newbery award. At its release, The Borrowers won the prestigious Carnegie Award for children’s literature in Britain. However, The Borrowers cemented Norton’s career as a children’s author. Before she wrote The Borrowers, Norton, who died in 1992, wrote Bed-knob and Broomstick, which later went on to inspire the 1971 Disney film. ![]() The book which inspired Miyazaki’s film was written by Mary Norton and published in 1952 under the name The Borrowers. ![]() The English language version of the Studio Ghibli film The Secret World of Arrietty arrives in theaters today (check out Matt Blum’s review and Kathy Ceceri’s perspective on the film’s science). ![]() One of Diana Stanley’s Illustrations for the 1952 British Editions of The Borrowers by Mary Norton ![]()
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