Bed-Knob and Broomstick

By Mary Norton

1957

First Published

4.00

Average Rating

192

Number of Pages

5H49M

Audio Length

Part of Series

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Series · 4 books

By Mary Norton, Walt Disney Company

The Magic Bed-Knob and Bonfires and Broomsticks in one volume. The classic exploits of the three Wilson children, the apprentice witch, and the flying bed. Prim, quiet, elegant Miss Price is a witch!Well, not quite, not yet. A witch-in-training, Miss Price hasn’t got the hang of flying on broomsticks nor has she learned how to be properly wicked. And as for her spells—well . . . practice makes perfect. But she can’t practice if the three Wilson children—Charles, Carey, and Paul—reveal her secret.In return for their silence, she enchants a brass bed-knob so that when the children twist the knob and wish, the bed will take them anywhere they want. But traveling by bed is a clumsy sort of magic. What the children want is adventure. What they get is trouble . . . trouble of the most breathtaking, fantastic, unforgettable kind.“Full of danger, surprise, and glinting humor.” —The New York Times**“Mary Norton has an infallible instinct for blending imagination and humor, everyday characters and odd ones, the real and the fantastic in just the right proportions.” —Chicago Tribune“Has humor and originality in its inventions, conversations, and unexpected twists of plot . . . Convincing.” —The Horn Book“Miss Price and the children (especially the matter-of-fact Paul) are charming enough to bewitch . . . without the aid of magic.” —Christian Science Monitor**

Avg Rating

4.00

Number of Ratings

11,505

5 STARS

37%

4 STARS

33%

3 STARS

24%

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Author

Mary Norton

Author · 12 books

Mary Norton (née Pearson) was an English children's author. She was the daughter of a physician, and was raised in a Georgian house at the end of the High Street in Leighton Buzzard. The house now consists of part of Leighton Middle School, known within the school as The Old House, and was reportedly the setting of her novel The Borrowers. She married Robert C. Norton in 1927 and had four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. Her second husband was Lionel Boncey, who she married in 1970. She began working for the War Office in 1940 before the family moved temporarily to the United States. She began writing while working for the British Purchasing Commission in New York during the Second World War. Her first book was The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons published in 1943, which, together with the sequel Bonfires and Broomsticks, became the basis for the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Mary Norton died of a stroke in Devon, England in 1992.