The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star Award-winning author by Jill Murphy (author)

The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star

Suitable for 7 – 9 years

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Brand new magical mayhem from the series that inspired Harry Potter! Our luck is in: Mildred Hubble is back. And she’s got a new problem. Sorry: friend. Mildred is hopeless at magic – the worst witch at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches. So she is stunned when she wishes on a star and her wish actually comes true. Suddenly she has a dog all of her own. But will her new friend get her into even more trouble? Who cares: we’re so glad to have Mildred back that whatever comes next will be magic!

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Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780141351995

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 6.5; Middle years; 3.0 points

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Jill Murphy

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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.

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  1. doglover
    on 9 September 2019

    I have watched 4 of the movies and I can’t wait to watch more.

    I am looking for the books at my library, I hope they’ve got them I can’t wait!

    5 out of 5

  2. JessieTigerSprinkle
    on 15 August 2016

    This is a brilliant book to read. infact it was such a good book I read it in the car! This is a great book for Mildred Hubble fans. The main message in this book is to be careful what you wish for.

    5 out of 5

  3. Catherine0703
    on 6 March 2014

    Very good and I find it quite funny

  4. Spidergirl
    on 6 March 2014

    This book is a must read highly recommend it

    5 out of 5

  5. heart29
    on 5 March 2014

    A great book and way to pass time :-)

    4 out of 5

  6. flower1237861
    on 8 September 2013

    I am willing to read this book because I feel that it wil be a great chapter book for me to read!

    5 out of 5

  7. aju
    on 17 August 2013

    loved it!