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The Worst Witch

By: Jill Murphy
Narrated by: Gemma Arterton
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'Millions of young readers have fallen under the spell of Jill Murphy's Worst Witch' - Sunday Express

Hold on to your broomstick for magical mayhem with Jill Murphy's much-loved classic The Worst Witch- the original story of life at a magical boarding school.

Mildred Hubble is a trainee at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, but she's making an awful mess of it.

She keeps getting her spells wrong and crashing her broomstick. And when she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet into her worst enemy, chaos ensues...


Read the rest of Mildred's (mis)adventures: The Worst Witch, A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch, The Worst Witch All at Sea, The Worst Witch Saves the Day, The Worst Witch to the Rescue, The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star and First Prize for the Worst Witch.


© Jill Murphy 2001 (P) Penguin Audio 2014

 Classics Fantasy Fiction Humorous Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Comedy Magic Funny Witchcraft Magic Users

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Millions of young readers have fallen under the spell of Jill Murphy's Worst Witch
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This story is a CLASSIC! I absolutely loved the book and the audio version was AMAZING!! The reading was excellent too, I felt like I was really there (:

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I loved this book the narrator read extremely and I have listened to it many times!

Loved it!

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just started to watch the TV set of the book and then I found the paperback version of them not all just the 1st two as I find it hard to read and enjoy the books I love this order audible style book for me and my little 👧 girl to have fun.

wow! my childhood

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The narrator doing a great job on it. I pleasantly surprised with the lively narration, with the pig sounds effect lol and perfect characters voices. Thumbs up!

Great narration

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Very well read. Our daughter couldn't get enough. Wish it lasted longer. Definitely recommend it.

Our seven year old loved it, as did we.

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