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Borrowers' Tiny World Comes Alive In 'Arrietty'

by Kenneth Turan, NPR
February 17, 2012

The new film The Secret World of Arrietty is based on Mary Norton's celebrated 1952 novel The Borrowers. It's about a race of tiny people who live among us but prefer to go unseen.

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  • Morning Edition, February 17, 2012
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