They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. A hand poured wax seal to finish it all off – great for keeping and putting in a journal or scrapbook as decoration!

It was released on VHS as an installment in the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection on October 28, 1994.Weinrib also voices Secretary Bird, a prim and proper type who is King Leonidas's secretary, and often bears the brunt of the King's outbursts. The characters were kept the same with slight twist of story, but thoroughly enjoyable and just had to find out what happens. A beautiful hardback gift edition of Mary Norton’s classic children’s book BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS, comprised of two stories, THE MAGIC BEDKNOB and BONFIRES AND BROOMSTICKS. the site's "critics consensus" reads: " Bedknobs and Broomsticks often feels like a pale imitation of a certain magical guardian and her wards, but a spoonful of Angela Lansbury's witty star power helps the derivativeness go down. During the meantime, Disney instructed Robert and Richard Sherman to begin development on the project.

I apparently read the second one, because I have really vivid memories of several things happening, including the children visiting the 1700's and the final scene.As an interesting side note, Emelius' shy, nervous personality in the book is almost the exact opposite of his personality in the film. Alone they are a reason for seeing the film", and the reviewer praised the Naboombu sequence as containing "not only sheer delights but technical masterpieces. The story in general is creative and cute, and the writing style is easily readable without feeling too "young". My youngest son was watching the Walt Disney "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" movie and asked if it was based on a book.

Arthur Gould-Porter as Captain Ainsley Greer, a British Army captain who comes from HQ in London to inspect the Home Guard and becomes lost in the area. Pauline Kael, reviewing for The New Yorker, panned the film, writing that there is "no logic in the style of the movie, and the story dribbles on for so long that it exhausts the viewer before that final magical battle begins. Paul reveals he still has the enchanted bedknob, hinting they can continue on with their adventures.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, claiming that, while the film has the "same technical skill and professional polish" as Mary Poppins, "[i]t doesn't have much of a heart, though, and toward the end you wonder why the Poppins team thought kids would like it much. When I became a little older, and many of the original Disney classics that we ONLY had on beta were lost, I was inconsolable. For the Naboombu soccer sequence, the sodium vapor process was used, which was developed by Petro Vlahos in the 1960s. The children aren't evacuees, there's no Island of Naboomboo, and Emelius Jones isn't selling fake magic lessons on Portobello road.