LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
The trials and tribulations of a disastrous new girl at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches a gloriously witchy boarding school, The Worst Witch has magic galore. Unfortunately for Mildred Hubble, most of it has a habit of going badly wrong. Her broomstick won’t fly straight, her cat is tabby not black and she manages to turn her arch-enemy into a toad. Nice short chapters with stunning illustrations also by Jill Murphy make this a perfect first reader.
In addition to our Lovereading expert opinion for The Worst Witch a small number of children were lucky enough to be invited to review this title. Here's a taster....'Mildred Hubble chews on her plaits, wears her hat back to front and her shoe laces trail on the floor. She is worst witch in her school but it isn't her fault. ' - Jemima Foyster.
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The Worst Witch Synopsis
Hang on to your broomstick for a gorgeous colour paperback edition of The Worst Witch!
Written and illustrated by Jill Murphy when she was only sixteen, disaster-prone Mildred Hubble - the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy - has been casting her spell for over forty years, enchanting millions of young readers.
For this special edition, Jill Murphy has reproduced her original illustrations entirely in gorgeous full colour, and has written a special letter to her readers.
Mildred Hubble is a trainee at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, but she's making an awful mess of it. She keeps getting her spells wrong and crashing her broomstick. And when she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet into her worst enemy, chaos ensues...
'Millions of young readers have fallen under the spell of Jill Murphy's Worst Witch' - Sunday Express
Jill Murphy was born in London in 1949. From a very early age she was drawing and writing stories, and was already putting books together (literally, with a stapler) by the time she was six. She went on to study at Chelsea, Croydon and Camberwell Schools of Art. Jill worked in a children's home for four years and as a nanny for a year, before becoming a freelance writer and illustrator. The Worst Witch stories, of which this is the first, are some of Puffin's most successful titles.
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9780141360614 |
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19th September 2019 |
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Jill Murphy |
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Puffin an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK |
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Paperback |
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128 pages |
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The Worst Witch |
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Press Reviews
Jill Murphy Press Reviews
Praise for The Worst Witch.
Millions of young readers have fallen under the spell of Jill Murphy's Worst Witch Sunday Express
Hurray for Jill Murphy...little girls will love the antics of Mildred Hubble and her hopeless tabby cat Independent
Millions of young readers have fallen under the spell of Jill Murphy's Worst Witch Sunday Express
Witty and original Books for Keeps
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About Jill Murphy
One of the World Book Day 2014 Authors
Jill Murphy is one of Britain’s most treasured author–illustrators. She wrote and illustrated her first book, the bestselling The Worst Witch, while still only eighteen, and went on to create the award-winning Large family series, which has sold over five million copies worldwide and been adapted for television. Jill’s other characters include a small monster called Marlon who starred in the acclaimed picture books The Last Noo-Noo and All for One, and Ruby the bunny, who stars in Jill's latest picture book, Meltdown! Jill lives in Cornwall.
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