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Other characters in the books include Ethel Hallow and Mildred's friends, Maud Moonshine and Enid Nightshade. Maud is a rotund girl and more sensible than Mildred, although usually finds herself caught up in her friend's problems. Enid (introduced in the second book) is a practical joker who is more likely than Mildred to get them all into trouble. The three of them have a strong rivalry with Ethel Hallow, their high-born, snobbish and vindictive classmate. On the way there, Mildred finds her friends Maud Spellbody and Enid Nightshade. When Mildred tells them about Ethel being nice for a change, Enid suggests she may have taken a "niceness course" during the holidays. Maud and Enid become suspicious when they catch Mildred talking to someone or something in her cat basket. Jill Murphy is a London-born English children's author, best known for The Worst Witch series and the Large Family picture books. She has been described as "one of the most engaging writers and illustrators for children in the land." Orme, Steve (26 October 2020). "Worst Witch wins Olivier for Northampton theatre" . Retrieved 28 February 2022. Each book covers one term at the school. There are two terms each year: the Winter term, from September to January, and the Summer term, from March to July. In First Prize for the Worst Witch, the most recent book, Mildred is in the Summer term of her fourth year.

In “The Worst Witch Strikes Again,” Mildred Hubble has been asked to chaperone and befriend Enid Nightshade, a new pupil at the academy. But Enid is the worst pupil anyone could ever wish to be paired up with. Miss Hardbroom the class teacher is not impressed when the new student casts a spell to help Mildred succeed during sports day. However, she does not know that Enid was involved in casting the spell and lays the blame on Mildred who was not even aware of the spell. Mildred is also blamed when her newest friend makes a monkey out of her witch’s cat. When Enid forces her to skip a celebration to honor the headmistress, it seems certain that things will turn out very badly for her until fate unexpectedly and suddenly intervenes. The story comes with several lessons about friendship and peer pressure that are very relevant to the situations and experiences of many school children today. For this special edition, Jill Murphy has reproduced her original illustrations entirely in gorgeous full colour, and has written a special letter to her readers. The Worst Witch Strikes Again, written and illustrated by Jill Murphy, is reissued with exciting new branding and format. The Worst Witch has become one of Puffin's bestselling children's series for readers aged 5 - 9 years.Ethel later offers to help Mildred again in her hair predicament. She formulates a potion that she claims will restore Mildred's hair to its rightful length. Mildred applies the potion that night, and just when she is dropping off to sleep, her hair starts growing longer and longer by the minute, engulfing the whole school. Miss Hardbroom comes to investigate, states that Mildred is having "a bad hair day", manages to stop the hair growing and cuts it to its rightful length and vapourises the swathes of hair that had engulfed the whole school. The Worst Witch was first published in 1974 by Allison & Busby, and proved to be an immediate success, selling out within two months. [9] [10] Plot

Wild, Stephi (3 April 2019). "THE WORST WITCH Flies Into The West End For A Strictly Limited Season". Broadway World . Retrieved 22 August 2021. Jill Murphy was born in London in 1949. 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.Publication of The Worst Witch finally came about, as Jill Murphy recalled, "thanks to a series of coincidences involving me spending time in Ghana, and a friend meeting Margaret Busby (Ghanaian herself, and considering starting a children's list for her imprint) at a publishers' party in London". [6] [8] [10] The Worst Witch was finally published in 1974, when Murphy was 24, by the small independent company Allison and Busby. In a flying lesson, Ethel steals Tabby (who has been suffering a nervous breakdown as a result of the hair incident) and hides him on the roof in front of Miss Granite's study's window. In the next chapter, Mildred and Maud inadvertently make an invisibility potion instead of a laughing potion in their class test.

a b c Flood, Alison (25 January 2017). "Jill Murphy: 'I just wanted to have a book on the shelf' ". The Guardian. Mildred unravels her pigtails to try out Maud's styling brush. Maud and Enid find her with her hair loose, and a chunk of her hair tangled up with the brush in a huge mess. Ethel comes in and volunteers to help. However, the "help" amounts to taking a pair of scissors and chopping off both the styling brush and the messy hair.This article is written from a real world point of view and so is not considered part of The Worst Witch universe. Jill Murphy was born in London in 1949. 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. The Worst Witch stories, of which this is the first, are some of Puffin's most successful titles. Murphy began writing The Worst Witch at the age of 15, and based the Worst Witch books on her own experiences of school at Ursuline Convent in Wimbledon, England, [3] with Singing becoming Chanting, Chemistry becoming Potions and so on. The Worst Witch books have been translated into a number of languages, including French, German, Spanish, Dutch and Czech. The TV series has also been dubbed into a number of languages.