![]() ![]() ![]() What they know is that she’s a piano teacher and works for the Red Cross. The three are unaware that she is training to become an apprentice witch and is already effective in doing certain spells. Some days later, the children meet their next-door neighbor named Miss Price. They are raised by a single mom who works full-time, and during summer, she doesn’t get enough time to look after them that’s why she sends them to their aunt’s home. Three kids, Carey, Paul, and Charles, live with their aunt in a small Bedfordshire village. The author died in Devon, England, in 1992 due to a stroke. Her debut novel, The Magic Bed Knob, was published in 1943, and, together with the sequel Bonfires and Broomsticks, she was later adapted into the Disney film Bedknob and Broomstick. ![]() ![]() Mary Norton started writing as she worked for the British Purchasing Commission in New York. Her book, The Borrowers, was said to have the setting of the house. The Georgian house later became a part of Leighton Middle School, nicknamed The Old House. She was raised in a Georgian house in Leighton Buzzard and was a daughter of a physician. Mary Norton was a literature and fiction children’s writer born in Leighton Buzzard, the United Kingdom. ![]()
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