Bedknobs and Broomsticks

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Well, maybe not quite in the way that its subtitle – how to become a witch in ten easy lessons – suggests.

I’ve got 31 years unfilled and 6 on the TBR at the moment, so have done 63 but still have a way to go! When the witch next door falls off her broomstick, it's the start of an amazing adventure for Carey, Charles and Paul.

Mary Norton spent much of her childhood in a late Georgian house which later became the model for Firbank Hall in 'The Borrowers'. Norton then published Bonfires and Broomsticks in 1947, and the two children's books were then combined into Bed-Knob and Broomstick in 1957.

Additionally, almost three minutes were removed from the "Portobello Road" sequence, and the song "Eglantine" was also shortened. Ha sido un disfrute conocer la obra original de una bruja que me acompañó en la infancia, pero su versión literaria no es tan mágica ni desgrana la misma crítica social. I can never work out if children’s books were more violent or unsuitable then or now – now there’s so much violence and harm in kids’ books but they’re not left alone so much, maybe! Mary Norton, award-winning author of THE BORROWERS, weaves her magic in these two stories, THE MAGIC BEDKNOB and BONFIRES AND BROOMSTICKS.

He is a devoted soccer player with a fearsome temper, as well as a notorious cheat who is known to make up the rules as he goes along – according to Paul's book. During the meantime, Disney instructed Robert and Richard Sherman to begin development on the project.

The children take it on a test run back to London--because Paul is missing his mother and get into all kinds of trouble with the police in the war-time black-out.

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