Jill Murphy Pair Award-winning author Pack by Jill Murphy (author)

Heartwarming family favourites by a classic author. Snuggly, reassuring and just right for bedtimes. Some picture books take you on great journeys and epic adventures. But these books peek into the most familiar place of all: home. There’s no place like home – and these best-loved stories capture the routine cosiness of family life. There’s a papa who can’t get to sleep, and the chaos of getting a babysitter. In fact, the families in these books are probably a lot like yours. But there’s a big difference: one is a family of bears, and one is a family of elephants who serve up lots of jumbo laughs!

Classic picture books by the wonderful Jill Murphy

Delightfully warm and witty tales of family life

Jill is a talented artist and picture book creator

She also wrote best-loved series The Worst Witch

Product Details

Format

Paperback

Date published

October 5th, 2017

Condition

New

In this pack

All in One Piece

Award-winning author
Peace at Last

gbp prices

Offer price: £5.99

Rewards/RRP: £7.99

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.