![]() ![]() 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. Mildred Hubble has gone on to several more adventures, most recently The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star, and even her own TV show. But she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teachers pet, into her deadly enemy. Jill became a freelance author and illustrator and many more wonderful books followed. Hang on to your broomstick for a gorgeous colour paperback edition of The Worst Witch Written and illustrated by Jill Murphy when she was only sixteen. Mildred Hubble is the worst witch at Miss Cackles Academy for Witches - shes always getting her spells wrong. 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. “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. Fans of the new Worst Witch series airing on both HBO and HBOFamily can follow the adventures of their favorite characters in the original novels - now in. From a very early age she was drawing and writing stories. ![]()
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