the magic feather duster
will and nicolas
Hardcover
(Harcourt Brace & World, March 15, 1958)
Will Lipkind and Nicolas Mordvinoff. Four boys have dinner with an old lady who has a magic featherduster. When they say they want it, she sends them on a quest to get an apple off a special tree. Only the fourth one succeeds, of course, because of showing charity to an unexpected person.