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The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy – Clothbound Classic

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Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable gift editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world – including this highly anticipated edition of The Worst Witch. Fancy a classics subscription? Get in touch and we can set that up for you!

Published 12 Sept 2024
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About The Book

Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable gift editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world – including this spellbinding 50th anniversary edition of The Worst Witch, the original magical boarding school series.

School spells trouble for Mildred Hubble!

Disaster-prone Mildred 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…

About the Author

Jill Murphy (1949-2021) was born in London and grew up in Surrey. From a very early age she was drawing and writing stories, and was already putting books together (literally, with a stapler) by the time she was six. She went on to study at Chelsea, Croydon and Camberwell Schools of Art. Jill worked in a children’s home for four years and as a nanny for a year, before becoming a freelance writer and illustrator. She wrote and iillustrated over 20 picture books, including the award-winning Large family of elephants, and 10 novels, including the highly successful Worst Witch series which have been also been adapted for television and stage. Jill passed away in Cornwall in August 2021, aged 72.

About the Puffin Clothbound Classics

Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the world. You can find all the titles here. The titles available in these editions are:

Black Beauty
The Secret Garden
A Christmas Carol
The Wizard of Oz
Treasure Island
Dracula
The Little Prince
Tales from Shakespeare
Frankenstein
Charlotte’s Web
Tales of the Greek Heroes
Wuthering Heights
Stig of the Dump
The Dark is Rising
Grimms’ Fairytales
Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairytales
Watership Down
The Neverending Story
David Copperfield
Little Women
Chinese Cinderella
The Jungle Book
Peter Pan
The Railway Children
The Worst Witch

Binding

Hardback
Author

Jill Murphy
ISBN

9780241663578
Page Count

112
Publisher

Puffin Classics
Published

12 Sept 2024

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