The Borrowers Afloat

Uprooted once again, the little people journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood.

When a prowling ferret drives them from their cottage refuge, Pod, Homily, and Arrietty navigate dark pipes in a soapbox lid, camp upon the riverbank, and wait for Spiller to return.

Their goal is Little Fordham, a legendary model village with empty houses sized for borrowers, where a fresh life away from hungry humans seems possible.

Stranded on an island of drifting twigs, the tiny family dodges a gypsy’s cruel fishing hook, and clings to wet branches. “As irresistible as its predecessors.”--Booklist
Kids Adventure Books: Spiller navigates the rushing stream in an old wooden knife box, paddling with a tarnished silver butter knife and punting upstream with an amber knitting needle.Unlikely Hero: Equipped with a trimmed bottle cork on tarred string, Pod turns an abandoned iron kettle into a safe, dry haven against the stormy weather.Children's Chapter Books: The resourceful family salvages provisions on their trek, rolling a hard-boiled hen’s egg down the washhouse pipes to slice with an oiled razor blade.Also by This Author: The Complete Adventures of the Borrowers: 5-Book Paperback Box Set, The Borrowers and The Borrowers Afield.