The Borrowers Aloft - Hardcover

Norton, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152105247 ISBN 13: 9780152105242

Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books, 1998

Synopsis

Imprisoned in an attic by a greedy couple who want to use them as performers, the Borrowers escape by balloon.

About this title

Review:

As exciting as it is alarming, the story of the family living beneath the floorboard is a fun bedtime read for children aged five to nine (TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE)

About the Author:

Mary Norton spent much of her childhood in a late Georgian house which later became the model for Firbank Hall in THE BORROWERS. For a year she acted at the Old Vic before getting married and going to live in Portugal. During the Second World War she was evacuated to New York and struggled to support herself and her four children while her husband was in the Navy. It was then that she began to write, and in 1945 her first children's book, THE MAGIC BEDKNOB - later combined with BONFIRES AND BROOMSTICKS in a single volume, BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS - was published. This was followed in 1952 by THE BORROWERS, which was awarded the Carnegie Medal, and three other titles THE BORROWERS AFIELD, THE BORROWERS AFLOAT and THE BORROWERS ALOFT.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0152105247
• ISBN 13: 9780152105242
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Krush Beth, Krush Joe