Annal:1952 Carnegie Medal
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Results of the Carnegie Medal in the year 1952. This year refers to the publication date. The Medal was awarded the following year (1953).
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The Borrowers: Borrowers - Book 1
- 1952 Carnegie winner
- Score: 10.02
The Borrowers are a tiny race of people who live hidden away in houses or other safe, convenient places, and own nothing except what they borrow from 'human beans'. The last family to live in the old house, Pod, Homily and Arriety have made a comfortable home beneath the kitchen floor. But their lives become threatened when Pod is seen while on a borrowing expedition. So Arriety is taught by her father the fine, and dangerous, art of borrowing to enable her and Homily to survive should Pod be caught...
