bedknobs and broomsticks book mary norton

On the next adventure, they decide that they may need more magic and request Miss Price, to come with them to visit a South Seas Island.

It requires a lot of concentration with no interruption if one wants to become a good witch. While there, they get in a lot of trouble with the police in the war-time blackout. At first, the idea is fun for the children as they first travel to their mother’s house in London since Paul had missed her so much. Their only task is to turn the knob on their bed for the journey to start. If he screws it halfway and makes a wish, the bed will carry them anywhere they want, whether present or future. To buy their silence, she decides to give them a gift of travelling in which they can be taken anywhere they wish to go.Īfter the bargain, Miss Price enchants a bed knob that Paul had unscrewed from his bed. She later lets the cat out of the bag and regrets it, and now she has to think of a way to keep the children quiet. Once the children tell her what they saw, she is afraid that her secret will come out. Miss Price does not want them to know what exactly happened. When they come near, they find her in crumpled and tattered clothes with an injured leg. One day they go out early in the morning to look for mushrooms, and they spot Miss Price flying over the rooftops with a broomstick and later see her fall in the garden where she is left injured.

What they know is that she’s a piano teacher and works for the Red Cross. The three are unaware that she is training to become an apprentice witch and is already effective in doing certain spells. Some days later, the children meet their next-door neighbor named Miss Price. They are raised by a single mom who works full-time, and during summer, she doesn’t get enough time to look after them that’s why she sends them to their aunt’s home. Three kids, Carey, Paul, and Charles, live with their aunt in a small Bedfordshire village. The author died in Devon, England, in 1992 due to a stroke. Her debut novel, The Magic Bed Knob, was published in 1943, and, together with the sequel Bonfires and Broomsticks, she was later adapted into the Disney film Bedknob and Broomstick. Mary Norton started writing as she worked for the British Purchasing Commission in New York. Her book, The Borrowers, was said to have the setting of the house. The Georgian house later became a part of Leighton Middle School, nicknamed The Old House.

She was raised in a Georgian house in Leighton Buzzard and was a daughter of a physician. Mary Norton was a literature and fiction children’s writer born in Leighton Buzzard, the United Kingdom.

Bedknobs and broomsticks book mary norton