Book description
When the witch next door falls off her broomstick, it's the start of an
amazing adventure for Carey, Charles and Paul. Her spell turns out
better than she'd hoped, and gives the children an enchanted bedknob
which whisks them off anywhere they want, even back in time. Mary
Norton, award-winning author of THE BORROWERS, weaves her magic in these
two stories, THE MAGIC BEDKNOB and BONFIRES AND BROOMSTICKS. Mary
Norton spent much of her childhood in a late Georgian house which later
became the model for Firbank Hall in 'The Borrowers'. For a year she
acted at the Old Vic before getting married and going to live in
Portugal. During the Second World War she was evacuated to New York and
struggled to support herself and her four children while her husband was
in the Navy. It was then that she began to write, and in 1945 her first
childrens books, 'The Magic Bedknob' and 'Bonfires and Broomsticks'
later combined in a single volume, 'Bedknob and Broomstick' was
published. These were followed in 1952 by 'The Borrowers', which was
awarded the Carnegie Medal, and three other titles 'The Borrowers
Afield', 'The Borrowers Afloat' and 'The Borrowers Aloft'. Anthony Lewis
lives with his wife and two young daughters in Cheshire. Since he
graduated with a first class honours degree in 1989 he has illustrated
and contributed to more than 200 children's books at home and abroad.
