Peregrine "Peagreen" Overmantel

Peregrine "Peagreen" Overmantel is a borrower whom Arrietty meets in The Borrowers Avenged. He is poetic and artistic.

He grew up in a rectory. At age five or six, after the humans took down the overmantel, Peagreen’s family prepared to leave the rectory. He fell from the mantelpiece and broke his leg, and so he was left behind. Some ground-floor borrowers, the Wainscot family, took care of him until his leg was better, and then they left as well, leaving him their home and some belongings.

He is working on a book, a history of the Overmantels. He is pale with “tow-colored” hair, and walks with a limp.

Trivia

 * He is a rival for Arrietty's affections.
 * In the 1997 Borrowers film, Arrietty's little brother is named Peagreen and played by Tom Felton.