The Worst Witch #3: A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch Award-winning author by Jill Murphy (author) (UK edition)

Magical fun from the classic series that paved the way for Harry Potter! Mildred Hubble has the shaming reputation of being the worst witch at Miss Cackle’s Academy. Now it’s back to school for Mildred, and this term she’s vowed to be a good student. Bad luck! Things quickly go wrong when Mildred’s arch-enemy, Ethel, turns her into a frog. You’ve heard of the Frog Prince. But what about a Frog Witch? How will Mildred change herself back?

Third in this classic series about a school for witches

Said to be the inspiration behind the Harry Potter books

A warm and witty tale of fitting in and tackling obstacles

Laughs, spells, school, disasters – a bewitching brew

Product Details

Catalogue number

187 in EU Teen January 2024

Series

The Worst Witch (book 3)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780241331651

Date published

May 4th, 2017

Other details

128 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Part of this Series

The Worst Witch

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.