| Author/Contributor(s): | Norton, Mary; Blegvad, Erik |
| Publisher: | Clarion Books |
| Date: | 9/1/2000 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The Magic Bed-Knob and Bonfires and Broomsticks in one volume.
These are the exploits of the three Wilson children; Miss Price, the apprentice witch; and the flying bed. Mary Norton sets the young holiday visitors in a sleepy Bedfordshire parish, where a sprained ankle reveals their quiet neighbour’s secret studies in riding a garden broom.
The stories follow the children across time and distance, from a coral lagoon swarming with South Sea cannibals to a churchyard in Restoration London.
Seventeenth-century Cripplegate provides a new companion in a timid necromancer whose bungled enchantments prove just as precarious as Miss Price’s own. A tale of a witch-in-training and trouble of the most unforgettable kind.
- Time Travel: A scratched pin mark and a backward twist on the brass knob propel the children into 1666 London instead of the Elizabethan court they intended to visit.
- Magic and Spells: Miss Price keeps a spotless workroom stocked with bats’ wings and dragon’s liver, testing new charms by briefly turning young Paul into a yellow frog.
- Sibling Dynamics: Older siblings Carey and Charles scramble to steer their flying iron bedstead out of police custody.
- Historical Fantasy: In the shadow of the Great Fire, a street necromancer named Emelius Jones relies on herbal simples to survive the seventeenth century.