Mary Norton Books in Order

Staying in Bedfordshire, Carey, Charles and Paul discover that Miss Price is learning witchcraft. When she gives them an enchanted bedknob in exchange for secrecy, their bed becomes a means of travelling far beyond their holiday surroundings.

Carey, Charles and Paul befriend an apprentice witch whose enchanted bedknob sends their bed on extraordinary journeys. These two adventures take the children beyond an ordinary holiday, through magical travels in their own time and the past.

Pod, Homily and Arrietty Clock live beneath the floor of an English house, taking small household objects to survive. When their secret existence attracts human attention, Arrietty's friendship with a boy puts the family's concealed home at risk.

Driven out of their sheltered home, Pod, Homily and Arrietty must learn to survive outdoors. Finding food and protection becomes a daily challenge for the tiny family, whose encounter with the resourceful Spiller offers a different way of living.

Carey, Charles and Paul return to Miss Price and resume their journeys aboard an enchanted bed. A trip into the past brings them into contact with Emilius, a would-be necromancer whose life becomes entangled with their own.

When the humans prepare to leave the cottage, Pod, Homily and Arrietty must find somewhere else to live. With Spiller's help, the tiny family embarks on a hazardous river journey using improvised vessels made from household objects.

A model village seems to offer Pod, Homily and Arrietty a home built to their own scale. But the greedy Platters capture them, intending to exhibit the tiny family, and the Borrowers must devise an escape from confinement.

Homily tells Arrietty about the days when many Borrowers lived in the house. Her recollection centres on Stainless, a little boy whose disappearance while borrowing parsley sets off a search among the tiny community hidden around the humans.

This collection follows Pod, Homily and Arrietty Clock through five adventures, beginning beneath the floor of an English house. Their struggle to remain hidden takes the tiny family into fields, along waterways and into homes threatened by human curiosity.

James, an ordinary English boy, finds himself among fairy-tale figures whose adventures are supposedly finished. Helping Princess Dulcibel with a curse draws him into new trouble involving princes, witches and the question of whether any giants remain.

After escaping the Platters, Pod, Homily and Arrietty seek safety in an old rectory, where they encounter another Borrower. Their hopes of settling down are threatened by the persistent humans who still want to recapture the tiny family.

This adaptation of the film screenplay follows Pete Lender as he tries to protect his tiny friends from lawyer Ocious P. Potter. Faced with a determined human enemy, the Borrowers devise ingenious plans to keep themselves safe.

These fifteen stories follow upper-middle-class women living through the 1940s and early 1950s. Respectable appearances and dull marriages conceal dissatisfaction, as their protagonists seek opportunities to escape the social expectations and domestic constraints limiting their lives.