The Borrowers Books in Order

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.

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.

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.