The Worst Witch (Young Puffin Modern Classics)

by Jill Murphy (Author), Julia Eccleshare (Introduction)

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.60

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.44

  Jill Murphy's classic, much-loved The Worst Witch series is the original story of life at a magical boarding school, perfect for 5-9 readers. Loveable but accident-prone Mildred Hubble is possibly the worst witch ever to go to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches...'Oh no...You've done it now Mildred!' 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 ). If you'd like to read more of Mildred's disastrous adventures at Miss Cackle's Academy The Worst Witch Strikes Again , A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch , The Worst Witch All at Sea , The Worst Witch Saves the Day and The Worst Witch to the Rescue are also available from Puffin and are perfect for children aged 5-9.

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  Hardcover
  1988

  $4.59

  Mildred Hubble is a trainee witch at Miss Cackle's Academy and tends to make a mess of it. She can't master the art of riding a broomstick and her spells have a way of going disasterously wrong. Jill Murphy studied at Camberwell Art School and is also the author of Peace at Last and Five Minutes Peace . The Worst Witch stories reached a large new audience through the 1986 screening of a Hallowe'en film starring Diana Rigg and Tim Curry.