Mary Norton

Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock. Includes a letter and a sketch of Homily and Arrietty by the author.

Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock -- the miniature Borrowers -- depend for their livelihood on the "human beans" whose cottage they live in. So when they discover that their humans are moving away, the Borrowers are forced to find a new home and a new family to borrow from. With the help of the wild Borrower boy Spiller, they make a harrowing journey down the cottage drain in a soap dish and are soon living in a teakettle by a river. But the poor Borrowers...

Escaping from an attic where they had been held captive over the long, dark winter, a family of tiny people sets up house in an old rectory.

Two stories about a family of tiny people called the Borrowers, in which the family is kidnapped, and the youngest boy is discovered missing.

The adventures of miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans.

Come along on an adventure with a family of Borrowers, the Clocks, who reside under the floorboards of Aunt Sophie's house in England. The Clocks, like all other Borrowers, survive by borrowing items from the humans. But life for the Clocks takes a turn for the worse when Arrioty befriends a human and the secrets of the Borrower world are discovered. What fate lies in the waiting for the Borrowers?