Cardboard slipcase with 4 paperback books detailing The Adventures of the Borrowers - The Borrowers, The Borrowers Afield, The Borrowers Afloat, and The Borrowers Aloft. The Borrowers is a children's fantasy novel by the English author Mary Norton, published by Dent in 1952. It features a family of tiny people who live secretly in the walls and floors of an English house and "borrow" from the big people in order to survive. This set also includes three sequels that feature the same family after they leave "their" house.