The Worst Witch - the original magical boarding school series!Celebrate The Worst Witch, the original magical boarding school series, with this spellbinding 50th anniversary edition.School spells trouble for Mildred Hubble!Disaster-prone Mildred 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.'Riding a broomstick is no easy mat...

The second hilarious adventure in the Worst Witch series.'I wonder,' said Miss Cackle, 'if there is any hope for you in this Academy, Mildred.'It's the Summer Term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches and disaster-prone, trainee witch Mildred Hubble is in deep trouble again - all because of the new girl Enid Nightshade, who isn't nearly as sweet and innocent as she looks...'Millions of young readers have fallen under the spell of Jill Murphy's Worst Witch' ...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of First Prize for the Worst Witch by Jill Murphy, read by Gemma Arterton.Accident-prone Mildred Hubble is the Worst Witch at Miss Cackle's Academy. She's always getting her spellswrong and landing herself in trouble. But Mildred is in the last term of Fourth Year and determined to prove that she's not as useless as everyone thinks - could it be First Prize for the worst witch after all?The Worst Witch ...

A wonderfully warm and relatable story from the brilliant Jill Murphy who has sold over 4 million books featuring the much-loved Bear Family. Just One of Those Days is a perfect bedtime read and a charming third story to follow classic picture books Peace at Last and Whatever Next!Mr and Mrs Bear wake up late. It's raining outside, and Baby Bear is late for nursery. Then Mrs Bear sits on her glasses at work and Mr Bear spills his coffee! ...

From bestselling author of Peace at Last, Jill Murphy, this is an imaginative tale of a little girl and who she meets On the Way Home. Brought to life by Anna Maxwell Martin.Claire has hurt her knee so she sets off home to tell her mum all about it. On the way she meets her friends and tells them how the fall happened. But just how did it happen . . .? Was she dropped by a wolf, a slithering snake, an enormous dragon or a hairy gorilla?!

Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Nabokov investigates the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the psychoanalytic approach of John Bowlby's Attachment Theory. Attachment Theory arises from the guiding principles of realism and the veratist's devotion to long-term, direct observation of subject matter. Additio...

This volume features a variety of primary sources by nineteenth-century women from around the globe, whose work focuses on the varied interconnections between gender and the environment. The collection considers the role women writers and artists in the long-nineteenth century that have played in the areas of natural history, and examines such topics as nineteenth-century female botanists; garden bowers and the entrapped woman; human-animal interactions (HAI); anthropocene feminism; evolut...

The year is 1930, and Cora McCavanagh is posing as a maid at Hollywood magnate Truman Byrd’s legendary estate. She’s closing in on the damning evidence she needs for a high-profile client. An aspiring PI, Cora was trained by her father, a former prison guard at the notorious Pelican Island, where she grew up surrounded by hardened criminals. And that's why she recognizes Jack Yates as soon as he walks through the door. The last time she saw him was on an ill-fated night that changed the co...

A Critical Companion to Jane Campion offers a thorough and detailed study of the works of Jane Campion. This edited volume seeks a modern approach by blurring the frontiers between film and television, film theater releases, and platforms, and treats the entirety of Campion's her body of work as a meaningful whole. The chapters explore recurring themes and connections across Campion’s oeuvre, including her complex feminine characters, exploration of New Zealand landscapes, love fo...

The eighth and final adventure in the hilarious Worst Witch series."I am a hopeless case - everything I do always does go wrong in the end."Summer term has started at Miss Cackle's Academy, and somehow disaster-prone Mildred Hubble has made it to Year Four without being expelled.Even though everyone knows her as the Worst Witch, she's secretly set her sights on winning the school's highest honour - that of Head Girl of Miss Cackle's Academy...

A new adventure starring the worst witch - lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble.Mildred makes a wish on a shooting star - and to her great surprise it comes true!Mildred's wish-come-true is a small dog but how can she keep him a secret from all the others, especially the formidable Miss Hardbroom?It's a disaster waiting to happen...and it does! - but everything turns out for the best when Mildred and her clever dog, Star, win an indoor swimming pool for the sch...

Hold on to your broom for magical mayhem!It's the start of a new term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches and Mildred Hubble is determined not to be the worst witch this year. Everything starts so well. Mildred's class has a new form teacher - no more Miss Hardbroom for Mildred and her friends! But then the new teacher, Miss Granite, starts acting fishy; Mildred has a very bad hair day when a hair growth spell goes wrong and she has to put up with know-it-all Ethel Hallow being 'h...