Initially it's a fun idea, with the children appearing first at their mother's house in London on the street in bed, but when we get back into the 17th Century with a necromancer named Emelius Jones who is wanted to burn at the stake, the book seems to take a darker turn.
All they need to do is turn the knob on their bed and they will be transported. Because of this, she decides to gift them a travelling spell to buy their silence, one that can take them to any place they wish to go in the past or present. The 3 children spot Miss Price one evening, sailing over the rooftops on her broomstick, and then crashing in the garden and injuring herself, and when they tell her of this, she is terrified that she will be 'outed' as a witch. In the film she is portrayed as cooky and quirky by Angela Lansbury, but in the book she is almost at creepy level, and is definitely not as cuddly as the movie. Little do they know, she is learning to be an apprentice witch, and is quite nifty with certain spells. Three evacuees from London (Carey, Charles and Paul) are left with a strange and fusty old woman named Miss Price.
And I love the film, so it was more of a disappointment to me than anything. If the door is shut, please ring the bell.'Bedknob and Broomstick' is one of those books that differs completely from the film.
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