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A Borrowers occurs as novel by Mary Norton about tiny humans world health organization "borrow" items from either normal humans and keep their being unknown. Promulgated within 1952, it won a Carnegie Medal for that year.
It was followed by a series of sequels recounting the farther escapade of the Clock personal.
A Borrowers Afield (1955),
A Borrowers Afloat (1959),
A Borrowers Aloft (1961),
"Poor Stainless: A New Story About the Borrowers" (1971),
A Borrowers Avenged (1982), which includes Unfortunate Stainless.
Adaptations
There develop been terzetto distinct screen adaptations of the book.
The number 1 was an American made-for-TV movie, shot on videotape to facilitate a necessary favorite results.
The 2nd was the BBC television series starring Ian Holm.
The third was the 1998 theatrical movie starring John Goodman as an evil lawyer, Jim Broadbent as the head of the Borrowers family and Celia Imrie as his wife, placed inside the fictional country that contains elements of Britain, France and America. This film seems to reverse a Hollywood cliche of having the British villain, when it features an completely British cast by having an Our contries actor when villain. 2 of the pic's more actors, Tom Felton and Mark Williams, went on to pop up in the Harry Potter films.
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