Bed-Knob and Broomstick (A Combined Edition of: "The Magic Bed-Knob" and "Bonfires and Broomsticks")

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. A tale of a witch-in-training and trouble of the most unforgettable kind. 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 With the powers they acquire from a spinster who is studying to be a witch, three children go on a number of exciting and gruesome trips. Contains both titles: "The Magic Bedknob" and "Bonfires and Broomsticks." In *The Magic Bedknob*, Carey, Charles and Paul 6 find prim Miss Price injured by falling off her broomstick. For their silence, she bespells a bedknob to carry them where-ever and when-ever. In *Bonfires and Broomsticks* two years later, they bring necromancer Emelius Jones to visit. But his neighbors want to burn him at the stake for disappearing in the Great Fire of London. With the powers they acquire from a spinster who is studying to be a witch, three English children have a series of exciting and perilous adventures traveling on a flying bed that takes them to a London police station, a tropical island, and back in time to the seventeenth century