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Kathleen Mary Pearson was the daughter of a physician and was raised in a Georgian house at the end of the High Street in Leighton Buzzard.
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The Borrowers children's fantasy novels by the English author Mary Norton, originally published in 1952. It features a family of tiny people who live secretly in the walls and floors of an English house and "borrow" from the big people in order to survive.
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A complete collection of the classic Borrowers stories by Mary Norton. The Borrowers: The Borrowers own nothing at all; they live in the secret places of quiet old houses - behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. Everything they have is borrowed from the 'human beans', who don't even know they exist. Arrietty's father, Pod, is an expert Borrower - he can scale curtains using a hatpin and bring back a doll's teacup without breaking it. Girls aren't supposed to go borrowing but as Arrietty is an only child her father breaks the rule. But then Arrietty makes friends with a boy - a 'human bean' - and from that moment danger is never far away for, above all else, they must avoid the great disaster of 'being seen'. The Borrowers Afield: The Pod family escape to the fields where their cousins live, but it's a long and dangerous journey. At last they find a new home and adapt to country life. The Borrowers Afloat: Homeless again, Arrietty looks forward to a life away from the dark country cottage, to one full of sunshine. The Borrowers Aloft: The family are now living in the model village of Little Fordham - a complete village tailored to their size. All they have to do is avoid being seen by the visitors, but one night the owner of a rival village comes with a cardboard box ready to catch them ...The Borrowers Avenged: Pod, Homily and Arrietty have managed to escape with the help of Spiller. They move into the old rectory where they live happily until the Potters come looking for them. After a horrifying encounter in the church, the Potters get their just desserts and the Borrowers can live peacefully once and for all. Poor Stainless: Young Stainless, a Borrower boy, goes missing on a mission to borrow some parsley and an enormous search ensues. 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 imediate 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.
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《借东西的小人在野外》 Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been thrilling children young and old for fifty years--and their appeal is as strong as ever in these handsome new paperback packages. While the original beloved interior illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush have been retained, Marla Frazee's striking cover illustrations capture these little people with a larger-than-life appeal. 波德一家在人类的大搜捕中逃离了地板下的家,开始了颠沛流离的野外生活。他们打算去投奔住在獾洞里的亨德瑞利舅舅一家,但到那里时,亲戚们已不知去向。他们捡到一只破靴子,把它拖到河岸的洞里搭建了一个临时的家。阿瑞埃蒂结识了从吉卜赛人那里借东西的男孩斯皮勒。斯皮勒时常用自己的打猎收获接济这些初到野外的同类。 冬天来了,住在靴子里的波德一家弹尽粮绝,喝光最后一点酒后沉沉睡去,醒来发现到了一辆吉卜赛人的大车上!这是怎么回事呢?他们能从吉卜赛人那里逃脱吗?斯皮勒又是怎么帮他们和亨德瑞利舅舅一家团聚的呢?雪貂男孩汤姆是他们的福星还是杀手?
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Kathleen Mary Pearson was the daughter of a physician and was raised in a Georgian house at the end of the High Street in Leighton Buzzard.
She is best known for the The Borrowers series of low fantasy novels (1952 to 1982), which is named after its first book and, in turn, the tiny people who live secretly in the midst of contemporary human civilisation. The house now forms part of Leighton Middle School, known within the school as The Old House, and was reportedly the setting of her novel The Borrowers. Her second husband was Lionel Bonsey, whom 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 by J. M. Dent in 1943. Its sequel Bonfires and Broomsticks followed two years later and they were re-issued jointly as Bed-Knob and Broomstick in 1957.
The stories became the basis for the 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Norton died of a stroke in Bideford, Devon, England on 29 August 1992. Norton"s novels The Magic Bed Knob. Or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons and Bonfires and Broomsticks were adapted into the 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks, starring Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson.
There have been several screen adaptations of The Borrowers:
The Borrowers: a 1973 American made-for-television movie.
The Borrowers: a 1992 British Broadcasting Corporation television series and its 1993 sequel The Return of the Borrowers, both starring Ian Holm and Penelope Wilton. The Borrowers: a 1997 film with a British/American cast including Tom Felton, John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie and Mark Williams.
The Secret World of Arrietty: a 2010 Japanese animated film from Studio Ghibli. The Borrowers: a 2011 British film starring Stephen Fry, Victoria Wood and Christopher Eccleston.
There have also been numerous theatrical adaptations of The Borrowers.
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