She now lives in Cornwall with her son Charlie. The Large Family stories are Jill’s other best known stories, picture books telling of the domestic chaos of a family of elephants. The Worst Witch to the Rescue is 6th title in the brilliant Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy, perfect for readers aged 5-9 and the original series of life at a magical boarding school with loveable but accident-prone Mildred Hubble She is possibly the worst witch ever to go to Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches. Mildred Hubble has gone on to several more adventures, most recently The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star, and even her own TV show. Murphys friend and agent Pamela Todd tells Macmillan, 'Her genius lay in. Shes always getting her spells wrong and she cant even. Jill became a freelance author and illustrator and many more wonderful books followed. A new series based on Jill Murphys beloved, bestselling childrens books is set for release in 2017, Variety reports. The Worst Witch became a beloved book series, TV and stage show, the latter of which recently won an Olivier award. Although her second year at Miss Cackles Academy for Witches starts off better than her first, Mildred Hubble soon regains. Mildred Hubble is a trainee witch at Miss Cackles Academy, and shes making an awful mess of it. When Jill was twenty four, The Worst Witch was finally published, and was an instant best-seller. 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. At only eighteen she finished her first novel, The Worst Witch, which was based heavily on her own experiences at the convent school.

Jill went to a strict convent, and left at sixteen to attend both Chelsea and Croydon art schools. The Worst Witch All at Sea A Bad Spell For The Worst Witch The Worst Witch And The Wishing Star The Worst Witch To The Rescue The Worst Witch Strikes Again. “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.

From a very early age she was drawing and writing stories.

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