* Based on the children's fantasy novel The Borrowers by Mary Norton, which received the Carnegie Medal in 1952.
A family of little people lives under the floorboards of an old house far out in the countryside, surviving by secretly borrowing items from the humans who inhabit it. One day, their existence is discovered by a kind young boy named Shou, who is visiting his…
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