British children's author and illustrator Jill Murphy has died. Murphy's books include The Worst Witch and The Large Family series. Murphy died of cancer at a hospital in Cornwall on Wednesday at ...

Children's author and illustrator Jill Murphy, who created the beloved Worst Witch books, has died at the age of 72. Murphy also published picture books including the Large family series ...

CHILDREN'S author Jill Murphy has died after a cancer battle aged 72. Murphy, who famously wrote The Worst Witch books, passed away in Cornwall with her son Charlie and niece Isabelle at her side.

a remake of The Worst Witch is coming to Netflix next year. A new series based on Jill Murphy’s beloved, bestselling children’s books is set for release in 2017, Variety reports. The show will ...

Forty-seven years after The Worst Witch debuted (there’s no wrong time to celebrate a book), here are a few things you might not know about author-illustrator Jill Murphy and her most famous ...

Apprentice witches: the essential ordinariness of Mildred (centre) and friends were crucial to the series' success Credit: Jill Murphy/Penguin ... the hapless Worst Witch at Miss Cackle's ...

The Worst Witch author Jill Murphy has died at the age of 72, her publisher has said. The writer and illustrator, best known for her series of children’s books about witch Mildred Hubble and her ...

Children’s author and illustrator Jill Murphy, best known for the Worst Witch novels and Large Family picture books, has died aged 72. She passed away peacefully following a long struggle with ...

Jill Murphy, the beloved children’s author and illustrator known for creating The Worst Witch, has died of cancer aged 72. The author’s most recent book, Just One Of Those Days, was published in ...

The Worst Witch author Jill Murphy has died at the age of 72, her publisher has said. The writer and illustrator, best known for her series of children’s books about witch Mildred Hubble and her ...