Bedknob and Broomstick Author:Mary Norton The Wilson children-Charles,Carey,and Paul one summer discovered Miss Price;discovered her,moreover,riding on a broomstick-though somewhat uncertainly! Miss Price,a prim and rather lonely spinster, was studying to become a witch and was nearly ready for the advanced course.To be certain the children would keep her secret,Miss Price gave magic po... more »wer to the brass bedknob of one of the big old beds in which they slept,a power that would end if they betrayed her.Thus their voyaging began-not as well ordered as they had anticipated,but much more exciting,for the flying bed landed them on a cannibal island,as well as in a London police court.Two years later,when almost miraculously they were able to visit Miss Price again,it landed them-by a backward twist of the knob-right in the middle of history.« less