![]() ![]() She now lives in Cornwall with her son Charlie. The Large Family stories are Jill’s other best known stories, picture books telling of the domestic chaos of a family of elephants. Mildred Hubble has gone on to several more adventures, most recently The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star, and even her own TV show. Jill became a freelance author and illustrator and many more wonderful books followed. When Jill was twenty four, The Worst Witch was finally published, and was an instant best-seller. Three big London publishers turned it down so Jill put it in a drawer and went off to work in a children’s home and as a nanny. ![]() ![]() At only eighteen she finished her first novel, The Worst Witch, which was based heavily on her own experiences at the convent school. Jill went to a strict convent, and left at sixteen to attend both Chelsea and Croydon art schools. “My earliest memory (my mum tells me I was two), is sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by sheets of drawings.” By the age of six she was stapling her own little storybooks together. From a very early age she was drawing and writing stories. Mildred Hubble has always been the worst witch at Miss Cackles Academy, but she just knows this term will be different. ![]()
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