The Worst Witch Strikes Again: 4

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I'm overcome with emotion and I will continue to read the rest of The Worst Witch series as there are some in the series I haven't read yet and I'm very excited to get going.

Mildred is an outcast from the start. She is presumably a Muggle born, having earned a scholarship through a creative writing essay rather than going there because of her heritage. As such, she did not have the magic centered upbringing her peers had. Though she makes up for this through her creativity and tenacity.This is another book series where I was introduced to it through the TV show adaptation. Seems to be a trend with me. In words and pictures, Jill’s stories have an easy and natural appeal to children. She liked children and all the warmth and mess of family life. Her stories about the Bear family and the family of elephants with the unsubtle surname Large, which they wear with pride, reflect that. I like to call this series the female Harry Potter and yes, I am aware that this came out a good 2- 3 decades before JKR's smash hit.

The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star (Scholastic UK, ISBN 978-0-141351995; another(?), ISBN 978-0-141383996) was released by Scholastic UK on 3 October 2013. [11] She began making her first books when she was six and had created a library of handmade books to share with her friends by the time she was 11. Successful at her primary school, Jill floundered at secondary school and left at 16 to do art foundation courses at Chelsea then Croydon art schools, before moving to Camberwell School of Art, where she lasted only a term. I'm bringing in El to ask her if I should add anything. Once again, it's super-fun that she's reading to me now, as much as I've read (and am reading) to her. Millions of young readers have fallen under the spell of Jill Murphy's Worst Witch' - Sunday Express Born in London, Jill grew up in Chessington, which was then in Surrey, the daughter of Reeney (Irene) and Eric Murphy. Her father, who worked in an aircraft factory, had a talent for drawing that he shared with Jill, regularly slipping illustrated notes into her school lunchbox. Her mother, previously a librarian in the Harrods lending library, had wanted to be a writer and did much to encourage Jill.

When it was no longer realistic that Mildred would still be at school, the series relocated her to a magical university in Cambridge and was retitled Weirdsister College: The Further Adventures of the Worst Witch and saw the return of Felicity Jones as a reinvented Ethel Hallow. The story is funny and sweet. It’s about a witch in her first year of boarding school for witches. The plot is predictable but I had no problem with that. Mildred is a clumsy student who seems to be in constant trouble, but of course there’s a very happy ending. the video sadly isn't very good quality, but there is also only lyrics version on youtube if you prefer that...) For the creation of new girl Mildred Hubble and the way she did not fit in, and particularly for the strict structure of the school and the disagreeable character of the teacher Miss Hardbroom, Jill drew directly on her own experiences at the Ursuline Convent school, in Wimbledon, south-west London, where she was sent when she was 11. It was an academic school where, as Jill described it, she was “unpigeonholeable”. Seriously, all the old dude in the book says at one point is "Let us all begin the chanting." There's no song. I repeat, THERE'S NO SONG!... Don't tell me you don't know the song! RUBES! Here: The greatest musical number in the history of ever.

A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch ( ISBN 978-0-7226-5763-8) was published in 1982. It features Ethel Hallow's little sister, Sybil Hallow, and her friend Clarice Crow. Me encantó que la escuela fuera un castillo con sus torreones, y sí, encontré muchas similitudes en cuanto ideas con la posterior obra de Rowling, aunque lógicamente las historias en sí no tienen mucho que ver. For those like myself who went to primary school in the 1990s, The Worst Witch books were probably the closest thing we ever got to Harry Potter. Not that we should feel deprived in any way, as The Worst Witch books were and still are enjoyable reads. The Worst Witch Strikes Again by Jill Murphy, one of a much-loved, long-running series about a troubled pupil of magic school, Mildred Hubble. Photograph: Greg Balfour Evans/Alamy

Today is my 25th Birthday and I couldn't think of anything Id rather be doing than reading a book which meant so much to me when I was a kid. I loved The Worst Witch and I really believed in Mildred Hubble as a person, not just a character. I strongly associated and empathised with her through all she goes through. Being seen as awkward and clumsy, being bullied by a smarter student and being a bit of an outcast through no real fault of her own. Besides all this, Mildred remains kind and a good person who tries to do the right thing even when her life seems hopeless.

Oh too bad. I just realized I forgot to read this with an English accent. It would have been ever so much fun. a b c Vincent, Alice (31 October 2014). "An oral history of The Worst Witch....The Worst Witch was only published because of a party". The Telegraph. This book would have received 5 stars from my 7 & 8 & possibly 9 year old self. I would have also really, really enjoyed it if it had been read to me when I was 5 and 6, helping to read it of course. 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.

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El: Yeah. Although, probably multiple people have had that same idea, so... It might not be exactly ripping people off, because other people have had the same idea. The strikingly stylish and mildly magical air Jill had about her when she was first a successful author never left her. Throughout her career she inspired huge respect and affection across the children’s book world and beyond. urn:oclc:650532552 Scandate 20110406024403 Scanner scribe6.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition)