Over the course of eight books (four of which were published before UK booksellers unpacked their first shipments of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in June 1997), Mildred embarked on a series of misadventures with two steadfast friends fended off sabotage attempts from an elitist rival student who hated her for no readily apparent reason and outwitted an evil witch with a personal grudge against the school’s benevolent headmistress-all while learning the finer points of invisibility spells, magic potions, and broomstick aerodynamics.įorty-seven years after The Worst Witch debuted (there’s no wrong time to celebrate a book), here are a few things you might not know about author-illustrator Jill Murphy and her most famous creation. If the Boy Who Lived had wanted a preview of what awaited him at wizard school, he needn’t have looked any further than Mildred’s exploits at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches. More than two decades before a certain boy wizard ditched his cupboard at 4 Privet Drive for the halls of Hogwarts, readers were introduced to clumsy but sweet-natured Mildred Hubble in the 1974 kidlit classic The Worst Witch.
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