![]() ![]() 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. Im a slow knitter it took me 18 months to make Mr Bears dressing gown, I also made him some stripey pjs and a pillow. At only eighteen she finished her first novel, The Worst Witch, which was based heavily on her own experiences at the convent school. Kids can use these free printable smoothie recipes for a pretend play smoothie cafe or a dramatic play idea in their preschool class. Jill went to a strict convent, and left at sixteen to attend both Chelsea and Croydon art schools. View all 1 editions Add another edition Book Details Published in New York Edition Notes 'A Puffin Pied Piper. Subjects Bears, Night, Fiction, Childrens fiction, Bears, fiction, Night, fiction Showing one featured edition. “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. Bear spends the night searching for enough peace and quiet to go to sleep. ![]() ![]() From a very early age she was drawing and writing stories. ![]()
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