A Bad Spell For the Worst Witch - Tapa dura

The new term at Witch School is not starting well for Mildred Hubble. She is determined to lose her reputation as the worst witch the academy has ever seen, but her efforts are continually frustrated by the spite of her enemy Ethel Hallow. Soon things get rapidly out of hand.

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 are some of Puffin's most successful titles.