- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Puffin; First edition edition (6 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 014138218X
- ISBN-13: 978-0141382180
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Independent, 21st October, 2005
‘hurray for Jill Murphy’s comeback… ; little girls will love the antics of Mildred Hubble and her hopeless tabby cat’
Observer 30/10/05
‘A lovely, sparky book for confident readers (mainly girls) of 8-11, and for anyone who has ever missed a trick.’
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Tropical sunshine beat down on the pupils of Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches as they arrived in the schoolyard on the first day of Winter Term. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Tropical sunshine beat down on the pupils of Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches as they arrived in the schoolyard on the first day of Winter Term. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is Jill's newest Worst Witch book, and I might go as far as to say that it is her best. With the mischevious ways of Mildred Hubble, her and her friends Maud and Enid are now in Form Three with a new form mistress, Miss Granite, who has a mass of red curls and a strange cloak that hides most of her face. But prepare for laughs - Mildred loses her hair and when it grows again, it just won't stop! A brilliant book, you won't be disappointed. Along with 'A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch', this is the best one yet/
Format:Audio Download
This is the second 'Worst Witch' novel we have listened to. It's very hard to distinguish it from the first. The main idea is familiar:
1) Heroine supposedly inept but actually just trusting and never seeks adult help despite the relentless bullying of her
2) Spiteful enemy, who is as praised by the
3) unimaginative 1950s-Style Teachers as the heroine is belittled and yet
4) despite isolation the Heroine responds... heroically... but no-one remembers this in the next book, where she is once again presumed incompetent. And so the dreary performance goes on.
Okay, sometimes kids like repetition and predictability. But this is tired, trite fiction. Find them something better or stay out of earshot.
My 7-year old son hates it too - he doesn't like the mounting buttock-clench drama as the heroine attracts the unfair disapproval of her teachers.
Miriam Margolyes' upper-class tones are certainly in-keeping with the boarding school atmosphere. Personally but I preferred Barbara Flynn's warmer narration in The Worst Witch to the Rescue.
(This review is based on an unabridged recording of The Worst Witch Saves the Day on CD, read by Miriam Margolyes, and lasting 1 hour and 46 minutes.)
1) Heroine supposedly inept but actually just trusting and never seeks adult help despite the relentless bullying of her
2) Spiteful enemy, who is as praised by the
3) unimaginative 1950s-Style Teachers as the heroine is belittled and yet
4) despite isolation the Heroine responds... heroically... but no-one remembers this in the next book, where she is once again presumed incompetent. And so the dreary performance goes on.
Okay, sometimes kids like repetition and predictability. But this is tired, trite fiction. Find them something better or stay out of earshot.
My 7-year old son hates it too - he doesn't like the mounting buttock-clench drama as the heroine attracts the unfair disapproval of her teachers.
Miriam Margolyes' upper-class tones are certainly in-keeping with the boarding school atmosphere. Personally but I preferred Barbara Flynn's warmer narration in The Worst Witch to the Rescue.
(This review is based on an unabridged recording of The Worst Witch Saves the Day on CD, read by Miriam Margolyes, and lasting 1 hour and 46 minutes.)
13 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Despite first reading the worst witch books fifteen years ago, i still delighted at the prospect of a new addition to the series. Fond memories of childhood and all that. Maybe it's a critical adult perspective on a series aimed completely at children but this latest fell far short of the mark. First, at a very stingy 156 pages of large print and illustrations, i feel a distinct annoyance at an author whom i suspect is merely running on her own steam of her previous works, in an attempt to catch up with the Harry Potter bandwagon. The story is clipped and one dimensional. A single thread which plays out all too quickly and leaves one wishing for something more. I am used the Worst Witch books covering an entire term. This one felt more like a single episode of the bland tv series.
One thing that i truly wish the author had realised before she picked up a dictionary of teenage slang for the '00s was how well the original four books had aged. Her attempts to allign this new book with the harry potter generation have not worked. Whereas the older classic worst witch books hold their own against the weighty, overrated Harry Potter series, this one lets the side down and comes across as a cheap imitation of the latter.
The illustrations are as beautiful as ever, which makes up for the overall disappointment of this short read. You're all going to buy it. Nothing I can say will or should stop you. But prepare for disappointment.
One thing that i truly wish the author had realised before she picked up a dictionary of teenage slang for the '00s was how well the original four books had aged. Her attempts to allign this new book with the harry potter generation have not worked. Whereas the older classic worst witch books hold their own against the weighty, overrated Harry Potter series, this one lets the side down and comes across as a cheap imitation of the latter.
The illustrations are as beautiful as ever, which makes up for the overall disappointment of this short read. You're all going to buy it. Nothing I can say will or should stop you. But prepare for disappointment.
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