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If you love the worst witch, try . MONSTER HOSPITAL: THE DISASTROUS LITTLE DRAGON MONSTROUS MAUD: BIG FRIGHT GILLIAN JOHNSON A.B. SADDLEWICK Hodder Buster Books Can four kids at the Monster At Rotwood, the kids dress in Hospital help Bart the dragon, who Halloween outfits and the motto can’t breathe fire or fly? If there’s is ‘Because We Scare’. Is naughty a princess to save, maybe they can Maud monstrous enough for this pull it off! sinister school? MR SKIP DINOSAUR POX MICHAEL MORPURGO JEREMY STRONG HarperCollins Puffin Jackie longs for her donkey to be Nothing’s going right for Jodie. She as fast as a racehorse! Can Mr Skip, hates her life and looks. But things a magic garden gnome, grant her get much worse on the morning she wish? A whimsical tale by Michael wakes up to find she’s turned into a Morpurgo. DINOSAUR! THE WORST WITCH BELLA DONNA: COVEN ROAD JILL MURPHY RUTH SYMES Puffin Piccadiily Press Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble! Fall When Bella is adopted from the under the spell of this classic series orphanage by Lilith, she tries to wear about an academy for witches. pink and be polite. But one day she comes home early to find that Coven Road is really a road of witches! THE ENCHANTED HORSE MAGDALEN NABB SPOOKY WINNIE HarperCollins LAURA OWEN & KORKY PAUL Irina is spellbound when she spots OUP the dusty wooden horse in the junk Funny frights and witchy magic shop window. Could the tattered little with Winnie. What’s even funnier toy hold the key to all her dreams? than Winnie? Winnie plus ghosties. Whoo–hoo! With pictures by Korky Paul. DOG ON A BROOMSTICK JAN PAGE WINNIE GOES WILD Corgi LAURA OWEN & KORKY PAUL The Witch was hoping a new cat OUP would help her win the Grand Spell How much fun is reading with Contest–but she’s ended up with a Winnie? More than a whole broomstick–riding dog! Is he going cauldron of magic, we think. Four to send her barking mad? hilarious stories. These books have been picked by SCHOLASTIC BOOK SPONSORED BY CLUBS, who haveThese hundreds books have more been children’s picked books by SCHOLASTIC to BOOK CLUBS, who have keep the readinghundreds habit going more longchildren’s after World books Bookto keep Day. the reading habit going long after Give your childWorld the choice Book Day.at clubs.scholastic.co.uk Give your child the choice. at clubs.scholastic.co.uk..

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FREE THE WORST WITCH PDF Jill Murphy | 128 pages | 05 Sep 2013 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780141349596 | English | United Kingdom 'The Worst Witch' Season 4 Cast Change Is Not Just a Rumor — Details As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six shows to get you ready for those The Worst Witch years of your life Get some streaming picks. Mildred Hubble Fairuza Balk is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch The Worst Witch. She can't seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers. The headmistress of the school, Miss Cackle Charlotte Raehas an evil twin sister Agatha who plans to destroy the school. In my opinion, any film where Tim Curry sings is a delight. Although I am not a fan of a lot of the horror Mr. Curry has created, he is perfect in the Worst Witch. Seeing this for the first time at the age of eight back on the Disney Channel inI was blown away with the story and the actors in the movie. Balk, only a child at the time was a wonderful actress before she hit the big screens. She would later go on to do the sequel to the Wizard of Oz as Dorothy. A lot of the cast members in this movie went on to do other notable movies including The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Overall, a perfect Halloween movie for girls and boys. It's funny that Harry Potter has a lot of similar tones and scenes that are equal to the Worst Witch.
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