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The Worst Witch

By: Jill Murphy
Narrated by: Gemma Arterton
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'Millions of young readers have fallen under the spell of Jill Murphy's Worst Witch' - Sunday Express

Hold on to your broomstick for magical mayhem with Jill Murphy's much-loved classic The Worst Witch- the original story of life at a magical boarding school.

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...


Read the rest of Mildred's (mis)adventures: The Worst Witch, A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch, The Worst Witch All at Sea, The Worst Witch Saves the Day, The Worst Witch to the Rescue, The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star and First Prize for the Worst Witch.


© Jill Murphy 2001 (P) Penguin Audio 2014

 Classics Fantasy Fiction Humourous Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Magic Funny Witchcraft Magic Users

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Millions of young readers have fallen under the spell of Jill Murphy's Worst Witch
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Wow not a lot of reviews on it but I love it so much and I’m only eleven years old and I love it so much and I want to listen to all the rest of the books 😍❤️🥰☺️

I love it so much

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I am seven and I like it because it is exciting and I like the witch getting a kitty cat I think she was a bit clumsy but very brave trying to please her teachers I think it is suitable for seven year olds and up. There is only one scary bit but it is not that scary.

Awesome book

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