She is possibly the worst witch ever to go to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches. Children who grew up on Peace at Last, Whatever Next! and The Large family are now buying the books for their children's children.The Worst Witch Saves the Day is the fifth adventure in the much-loved Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy, in which lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble is in trouble once again. Murphy's friend and agent Pamela Todd tells Macmillan, 'Her genius lay in the way both the child and the adult could identify with her stories, which she wrote and illustrated herself. She didn't exactly mean to break rules and annoy teachers, but things just seemed to happen when she was around.' The Worst Witch became a beloved book series, TV and stage show, the latter of which recently won an Olivier award. Murphy also admitted that she was the model for her protagonist Mildred Hubble, the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, described in the book as 'one of those people who always seem to be in trouble. The convent partly inspired the setting for Murphy's first book, The Worst Witch, magically finished when she was just 18, and published when she was 24. In 2019, she told The Daily Telegraph her teachers often pointed out her 'hopelessness in all other areas of the curriculum and total lack of common sense.' She once said her earliest memory was 'sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by sheets of drawings.' Murphy attended a Catholic Grammar school where the nuns were strict. Jill Murphy started writing and illustrating stories when she was a little girl growing up in London. According to Macmillan, The Large family series has sold five million copies around the world.

In Five Minutes Peace, they have a blast splishing and splashing about. Large enjoying a nice bubble bath and a cup of tea when, one by one, her three rambunctious children come in to spoil the moment. The first book in her series about The Large family of elephants begins with a weary Mrs.

If you ever needed five minutes of peace from parenting, Jill Murphy was your friend. According to her publisher, her son Charlie and niece Isabelle were at her side. Murphy died of cancer at a hospital in Cornwall on Wednesday at the age of 72.

Murphy's books include The Worst Witch and The Large Family series. British children's author and illustrator Jill Murphy has died.

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