page_title: Mary Norton (author)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Norton (author) / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Mary Norton spent the final years of her life in this house in Hartland, Devon, England
context_page_description: Kathleen Mary Norton, known professionally as Mary Norton, was an English author of children's books. She is best known for The Borrowers series of low fantasy novels, 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. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007 it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. Norton's novels The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons and Bonfires and Broomsticks were adapted into the 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
context_section_description: The British first editions of these works were hardcover books published by J. M. Dent. The first story had been previously published in the US as The Magic Bed-Knob, a picture book illustrated with colour paintings by Waldo Peirce.
  The Magic Bed Knob (1945)
  Bonfires and Broomsticks (1947)
  The first omnibus edition was Bed-Knob and Broomstick (Dent, 1957), with new illustrations by Erik Blegvad. The title Bedknobs and Broomsticks has also been used, after the 1971 Disney film adaptation.
  The Borrowers (1952) — winner of the Carnegie Medal
  The Borrowers Afield (1955)
  The Borrowers Afloat (1959) — a Carnegie runner-up
  The Borrowers Aloft (1961)
  Poor Stainless: A New Story About the Borrowers (1966)
  Are All the Giants Dead? (1975) — no relation to the Borrowers series
  The Borrowers Avenged (Viking Kestrel, 1982)
  The Complete Borrowers Stories (1983) — omnibus, excluding Poor Stainless, issued with an introduction by the author
  Poor Stainless (Viking UK, 1994) — revised as a novelette with a short author's note
  In the UK the first four Borrowers novels were illustrated by Diana Stanley and The Borrowers Avenged was illustrated by Pauline Baynes. In the U.S. all five novels were illustrated by Berta and Elmer Hader. They have also been illustrated by Ilon Wikland.
  The Bread and Butter Stories (1998) - collection of short stories for adults, written for magazines
caption: "Borrowers' Cottage" in Hartland, North Devon, where Norton spent her final years living with her second husband, Lionel Bonsey
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