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The Worst Witch to the Rescue

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The Worst Witch to the Rescue by Jill Murphy

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The Worst Witch to the Rescue by Jill Murphy is a classic Worst Witch adventure starring lovable but accident-prone Mildred Hubble.

‘It isn’t actually a known spell. I sort of made it up myself.’

Mildred Hubble always tries her best, but her spells never seem to go right. She may be the worst witch at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches, but she’s the best friend you could ever have. Millions of readers love her and so will you . . .

Jill Murphy started putting books together (literally with a stapler), when she was six. The Worst Witch was first published in 1974 and this much-loved classic has been enjoyed by readers for more than 30 years. Jill Murphy also written and illustrated several award-winning picture books for younger children.

If you’d like to read more of Mildred’s disastrous adventures at Miss Cackle’s Academy:
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 and the Wishing Star are also available from Puffin and are perfect for children aged 5-9.

Reviews

30 Jul 2024

I like the book because Mildred Hubble is trying her best to be able to go further than Ethel to impress her teachers to get the higher certificate.

11 Jul 2024

This is a really good book because I'm not because it's a really adventurous and I would recommend this too everyone it's really good and it's about which craft and witches and magic all that it's really interesting and it will imagination I think everyone should read this book

07 Sep 2023

This book is good for all ages and is quite funny.

26 Jul 2023

This is a great, great book. I LOVE the ending. Mildred is the BEST witch!

14 Jan 2023

I give this book 7/10 because in this book Mildred who is the girl at the front of the book she always concentrates in school and try's hard. This book teaches me not to lie because you will always get caught.

21 Dec 2022

Good book, reading at school

07 Jul 2022

My favourite characters is Speedy/Einstein because the way he get Ethel in trouble for saying that Ethel knocked Mildred bag down the tree on purpose and she threw Mildred's work in the bin after coping it and she trying a snake spell on Mildred 's pots and she made Drusilla put Speedy/Einstein in the pine tree instead of doing it her self.

07 Nov 2021

I loved the tortoise that Mildred brought in because Ethel hallow stole her idea and stole her tortoise!!! Mildred had to save her tortoise!

26 Aug 2021

This book starts with all the wtiches thinking Mildred turned her pottery into snakes and she made smiley faces for her project. But it was actually Ethel Hallow, the bad witch, who turned Mildred's things into those things. Mildred's real project was to make animals talk. Ethel printed Mildred's project out and threw Mildred's work into the bin. At the end, Miss Hardbroom and Miss Cackle found out that Ethel stole Mildred's work because Mildred's tortoise told them and Ethel got told off. My favourite part was when Mildred saved her tortoise in the pine tree.

20 Aug 2021

In this book the worst witch has a holiday project stolen. Has to rescue a tortoise from an enormous tree and has to show the headmistress that it can speak. I would recommend this to someone who likes to read adventure books.

19 Aug 2021

I like that in there you can be witches and that Mildred rescued her tortoise even though she put herself in danger.
I would recommend this book to somebody else even though it's got a lot of pages.

14 Aug 2021

It had a great atmosphere and my favourite character is still Tabby. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes humour and adventure stories.

03 Aug 2021

it was weird but I enjoyed it.

28 Jul 2021

I love all the worst witch books. I would definitely recommend them.

19 Feb 2021

Enjoyed reading this.

Likes reading more about the characters. the story helped her escape to another world!

Would recommend.

08 Dec 2020

This one is my favourite one.

30 Sep 2020

The worst itch rescues a girl and saves the day. Everyone applause's her and she gets very excited.

16 Sep 2020

So excited to finish this book and find out what was going to happen, read every night!

02 Sep 2020

I love this book because there are animals, adventure and magic in this story. My favourite character is Mildred. I would definitely recommend it.

02 Sep 2020

I liked the part where Miss Hardbroom made Ethel search the kitchen for Mildred's spell . I would recommend this book .

30 Aug 2020

I thought the book was great. I loved the fact that Mildred kept a tortoise in her room to show the class her animal spell.

27 Aug 2020

I really liked this book because she is a terrible witch but her heart is in the right place

25 Aug 2020

I loved it

24 Aug 2020

When Ethel put the tortoise in the tree it made me scared.

24 Aug 2020

I like this book. I liked it when Ethel kept playing tricks on Mildred and in the end HB knew it was Ethel and she got into trouble.

23 Aug 2020

The Worst Witch series are amazing but this is one of my favourites! It tells you that you can really do anything if you put your mind to it.

19 Aug 2020

This is a lovely fiction book, I would recommend it to anyone who likes fun stories about magic. In this story, a young with called Ethel Hallow, steals Mildred Hubble's school holiday project. She hides Mildred's talking tortoise, Einstein, in a tree and pretends the spell that takes animals talk, was hers. The worst witch saves the day in the end after lots of magical mayhem

18 Aug 2020

There were a lot of different animals and the animals were very cute. The animals could talk which was fun.

18 Aug 2020

I wished I was one of the characters, but my favourite was Mildred. It is so shocking for Mildred that she thought that the turtle she practised her spell on didn't work but then it did. The turtle went in its shell because it was being shaken a lot.

12 Aug 2020

I like it because I believe in witches and sometimes I try to do spells (they don't always go right).

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