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Mary Norton Books In Order
Publication Order of Bedknobs and Broomsticks Books
| The Magic Bedknob | (1943) |
| Bedknob and Broomstick | (1947) |
| Bonfires and Broomsticks | (1957) |
Publication Order of The Borrowers Books
| The Borrowers | (1952) |
| The Borrowers Afield | (1955) |
| The Borrowers Afloat | (1959) |
| The Borrowers Aloft | (1961) |
| Poor Stainless | (1966) |
| The Complete Adventures of the Borrowers | (1967) |
| The Borrowers Avenged | (1982) |
| The Borrowers: Film Storybook | (1997) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Are All the Giants Dead? | (1975) |
Publication Order of Collections
| The Bread and Butter Stories | (1998) |
| The Ministry of Flowers and Other Poems | (2016) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Over the Rainbow | (1983) |
| Ready or Not: Here Come Fourteen Frightening Stories! | (1987) |
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Mary Norton (writer)
English children's writer (1903–1992)
This article is about the British author. For the American author born Alice Mary Norton, see Andre Norton. For other uses, see Mary Norton.
Kathleen Mary Norton (née Pearson; 10 December 1903 – 29 August 1992), known professionally as Mary Norton, was an English writer of children's books.[1] She is best known for 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.
Norton won the 1952 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising The Borrowers as the year's outstanding children's book by a British author.[2] For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007 it was named one of the top 10 winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.[3][a] Norton's novels The Magic B
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Mary Norton
Mary Norton (1903 – 1992)
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When and where born: Mary Norton, the famous prize-winning author of The Borrowers, was born Mary Pearson, a doctor’s daughter, in Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire in England. She lived in a beautiful old Georgian house for much of her childhood, which later became the setting for many of her stories.
School days: Mary went to a convent school as a child. And the house she grew up in fryst vatten now part of a school – the Leighton Buzzard mittpunkt School!
Why and when she began writing: When Mary left school she became an actress with the Old Vic company in London, but shortly afterwards she married a rik shipping magnate, Robert Norton, and moved with him to Portugal where his family had its business. There she had 4 children, but was often lonely as her husband was frequently away. Then, in 1939, World War Two broke out, and Mary’s husband joined the Nav