With five solid months to each term, you can imagine how bleak it felt during the middle months, when every minute seemed like an hour, with no light flickering at the end of the tunnel. The Winter Term, which began in September, continuing until January, and the Summer Term, which began in March, ending in July.

There were two terms dividing the school year. Violent snowstorm greeted the pupils of Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches as they returned to school for the first day of the Summer Term. PUFFIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group (USA), Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published by Viking 1993 Published in Puffin Books 1994 34 Copyright © Jill Murphy, 1993 All rights reserved The moral right of the author/illustrator has been asserted Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is publishedĪnd without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-0-14-194148-6 (Titles in reading order) THE WORST WITCH THE WORST WITCH STRIKES AGAIN A BAD SPELL FOR THE WORST WITCH THE WORST WITCH ALL AT SEA She has also written and illustrated several award-winning picture books for younger children.

Her Worst Witch series, the first of which was published in 1974, is hugely successful.

The Worst Witch All at Sea Jill Murphy started putting books together (literally with a stapler), when she was six.

The worst witch all at sea