A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch Award-winning author by Jill Murphy (author) (UK edition)

A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch is the third of Jill Murphy’s much-loved The Worst Witch series, starring the lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble – possibly the worst witch ever to go to Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches . . .

A new term spells disaster for Mildred!

After a disastrous first year, Mildred is determined to lose her embarrassing reputation as the worst witch Miss Cackle’s Academy has ever seen – but things rapidly get out of hand when her arch-enemy Ethel turns her into a frog…

Jill Murphy started putting books together (literally with a stapler), when she was six. The Worst Witch was first published in 1974 and this much-loved classic has been enjoyed by readers for more than 30 years. Jill Murphy also written and illustrated several award-winning picture books for younger children.

If you’d like to read more of Mildred’s disastrous adventures at Miss Cackle’s Academy The Worst Witch, The Worst Witch Strikes Again, The Worst Witch All at Sea, The Worst Witch Saves the Day, The Worst Witch to the Rescue and The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star are also available from Puffin and are perfect for children aged 5-9.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780141349619

Publisher

Puffin

Date published

September 5th, 2013

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Jill Murphy

Jill Murphy was born in London in 1949. From a very early age she was drawing and writing stories. “My earliest memory (my mum tells me I was two), is sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by sheets of drawings.” By the age of six she was stapling her own little storybooks together.

Jill went to a strict convent, and left at sixteen to attend both Chelsea and Croydon art schools. At only eighteen she finished her first novel, The Worst Witch, which was based heavily on her own experiences at the convent school. Three big London publishers turned it down so Jill put it in a drawer and went off to work in a children’s home and as a nanny.

When Jill was twenty four, The Worst Witch was finally published, and was an instant best-seller. Jill became a freelance author and illustrator and many more wonderful books followed. Mildred Hubble has gone on to several more adventures, most recently The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star, and even her own TV show. The Large Family stories are Jill’s other best known stories, picture books telling of the domestic chaos of a family of elephants.

She now lives in Cornwall with her son Charlie.

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Booklover550
on 10 June 2020

I liked this book. It is about mildred being determend to lose her embarrassing repution as the worst witch in cakles academy has ever seen however things rapidly get out of hand

4 out of 5
Spidergirl
on 9 March 2014

These books are awsome

4 out of 5

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A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch Award-winning author by Jill Murphy (author) (UK edition)