First Prize for the Worst Witch Award-winning author

First prize? What’s going on? Has hapless witch Mildred Hubble finally done something right? Usually it’s nothing but hubble, bubble, toil and trouble for the worst witch at Miss Cackle’s Academy. She’s always getting her spells wrong, crashing her broom and making her scary teachers cross. Thing is, Mildred’s in the Fourth Year now. She can’t stay bottom of the class forever. She has to prove she’s not as useless as people think. So when Mildred thinks of a clever way to make her mark, might she win the day after all?

A fabulous new book for this best-loved classic series

Exclusive early paperback just for Scholastic customers

Laughs, spells, school, disasters – a bewitching brew

The first Worst Witch book was published in 1975

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780141355160

Publisher

Puffin

Date published

September 6th, 2018

Lexile measure

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Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 6.2; Middle years; 3.0 points

Other details

208 pages

Condition

New

Available in these packs

8books

The Worst Witch Pack x 8

Award-winning author

eur prices

Price: €50.91

Rewards: €59.90

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.

Reviews

roza
on 2 November 2018

the worst witch

I like that book because Mildred gets in lots of trouble changing Ethel into a pig and Ethel changing Mildred into a frog. I am happy to be writing to you Jill Murphy because you are my best author that wrote a book that I already read and because I like witches and you are so lucky that I read three of your worst witch books.