Stated "First American Edition" with complete number line. Tight, clean, flat, square, sharp and crisp book in nearly pristine DJ. Ex-library, properly de-accessioned, with expected stamps, labels, marks, paste-downs and protections. Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, several European awards and nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.

The first in a series of five books about this unique family. Some compare it to Mary Norton's The Borrowers, and indeed there are some serious parallels, but both have their roots in the rich British folk tales which include the "wee folk", brownies, fairies and the like. 

Number 5 Brocklehurst Grove is the home to a most unusual family, the Mennyms--father, mother, grandparents, and five children--who refuse to mix with outsiders lest the secrets of their existence be revealed.