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  • The Worst Witch, Book 1
  • By: Jill Murphy
  • Narrated by: Gemma Arterton
  • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (383 ratings)
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By: Jill Murphy
Narrated by: Gemma Arterton
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Summary

Hold on to your broom for magical mayhem!

Lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble 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. Yet she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy and chaos ensues....

©2014 Jill Murphy (P)2014 Penguin Audio

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love the book

love the book and I've read it and it's a nice one I have all of the worst witch books there all really good

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FAB

At first I didn't feel one listening now I want to listen to it 10 more times! 5 stars

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Takes Me Back To My Youth

Great story, beautifully narrated and the kids love listening to it! 5 stars all round.

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The sound of my childhood!!

I always loved the worst witch so to hear read to me was a delight!

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wow! my childhood

just started to watch the TV set of the book and then I found the paperback version of them not all just the 1st two as I find it hard to read and enjoy the books I love this order audible style book for me and my little 👧 girl to have fun.

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AMAZING

This is one of the best books I e listened to in a wile I wouldn’t fault it great for all ages

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Great narration

The narrator doing a great job on it. I pleasantly surprised with the lively narration, with the pig sounds effect lol and perfect characters voices. Thumbs up!

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Loving it!

This story is a CLASSIC! I absolutely loved the book and the audio version was AMAZING!! The reading was excellent too, I felt like I was really there (:

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I love it

I liked it when the girl did something wrong and it was funny 😂😂😂so funny

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