The Worst Witch (Colour Edition)

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Hang on to your broomstick for a gorgeous colour paperback edition of The Worst Witch! Written & 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, & 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 & crashing her broomstick. & 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 & writing stories, & was already putting books together (literally, with a stapler) by the time she was six. She went on to study at Chelsea, Croydon & Camberwell Schools of Art. Jill worked in a children’s home for four years & as a nanny for a year, before becoming a freelance writer & illustrator. The Worst Witch stories, of which this is the first, are some of Puffin’s most successful titles.