Jill passed away in Cornwall in August 2021, aged 72. Mildred makes a wish on a shooting star - and to her great surprise it. She wrote and iillustrated over 20 picture books, including the award-winning Large family of elephants, and 10 novels, including the highly successful Worst Witch series which have been also been adapted for television and stage. A new adventure starring the worst witch - lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble.

Be careful what you wish for Mildred Hubble, disaster-prone witch in training. Mildred Hubble may be the clumsiest witch at Miss Cackle’s Academy, but as a senior student she’s been assigned the important task of lighting lanterns and candelabras each evening. Jill worked in a children's home for four years and as a nanny for a year, before becoming a freelance writer and illustrator. Buy a cheap copy of The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star book by Jill Murphy. She went on to study at Chelsea, Croydon and Camberwell Schools of Art. Mildred Hubble, positively the Worst Witch at Miss Cackles Academy for Witches is back in another very funny adventure. 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. Biography: Jill Murphy (1949-2021) was born in London and grew up in Surrey.Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK.

The Worst Witch stories, of which this is the seventh, are some of Puffin's most successful titles. Jill worked in a children's home for four years and as a nanny for a year, before becoming a freelance writer and illustrator. She went on to study at Chelsea, Croydon and Camberwell Schools of Art. The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star launches a stunning new cover look and an appealing squarer format across the whole of the Worst Witch series which includes The Worst Witch The Worst Witch Strikes Again A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch The Worst Witch all at Sea The Worst Witch Saves the Day and The Worst Witch to the Rescue. It's a disaster waiting to happen.and it does.! Mildred's wish-come-true is a small dog but she has to keep him a secret from her friends, and especially the formidable Miss Hardbroom. In The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star, Mildred, notoriously the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, makes a wish on a shooting star - and to her great surprise it comes true! But it also spells trouble.

The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy is back in an exciting, very funny 7th adventure.

The worst witch and the wishing star