Mary norton the borrowers biography of martin lawrence

Norton won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association , recognising The Borrowers as the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. Kathleen Mary Pearson was the daughter of a physician and grew up in a Georgian house at the end of the High Street in Leighton Buzzard.

She is best known for The Borrowers series of low fantasy novels ( to ), which is named after its first book and, in turn, the tiny people who live secretly in the midst of contemporary human civilisation.

The house now forms part of Leighton Middle School, known within the school as The Old House, and was reputedly the setting of her novel The Borrowers. She married Robert Charles Norton on 4 September and had four children, two boys and two girls; her son, also named Robert Norton , became a printer and Microsoft executive. Norton began working for the British War Office in before the family moved temporarily to the United States.

Dent in The stories became the basis for the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Mary Norton (born Dec. 10, , London, Eng.—died Aug. 29, , Hartland, Devon) was a British children’s writer most famous for her series on the Borrowers, a .

During her latter years Norton lived with her second husband in the village of Hartland in Devon. She died of a stroke in Bideford , Devon, England, on 29 August The first edition hardcover books were published in Britain by J. In the U. They have also been illustrated by Ilon Wikland. There have also been numerous theatrical adaptations of The Borrowers.

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