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The Worst Witch is a series of children's books written and illustrated by Jill Murphy.The series are primarily about a girl named Mildred Hubble who attends a witch school and fantasy stories, with eight books published.
In The Worst Witch, Ethel is turned into a pig by Mildred Hubble after persistently taunting her about her tabby cat's inability to fly properly on a broomstick. In revenge, Ethel jinxes the spare broom she lends Mildred, ruining Mildred's broomstick performance in front of Grand Wizard Egbert Hellibore .
Mildred Hubble learns about magic and witching, discovering she is a witch despite coming from a non-witching family. With the help of her new friend Maud Spellbody, Mildred goes to an academy for witches and is admitted after she saves it from the headmistress Miss Cackle's evil sister Agatha whose magic is later taken away.
Mildred Hubble (Georgina Sherrington) – Mildred is the protagonist of The Worst Witch series. She is a clumsy, bungling young witch-in-training, who never seems to get anything right at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches. She is tall, with long, straggly dark plaits, and never ties her bootlaces.
The writer was also well known for her Large Family series and her picture books.
The Worst Witch is a 1986 British musical fantasy television film based on the first children's book in The Worst Witch series, written in 1974, by the English author Jill Murphy. The film stars as Fairuza Balk as Mildred Hubble, who is the "Worst Witch" at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches.
The Worst Witch (2017) This series, based on the beloved British book series of the same name, follows the adventures of Mildred Hubble and her friends Maud Spellbody and Enid Nightshade as they ...
The New Worst Witch was initially planned to have a third season in 2007, but Alice Connor who played Henrietta Hubble in the series along with several other cast members decided not to sign onto the third season and thus was subsequently canceled the same year. During November 2009, CITV showed all episodes of The New Worst Witch.