Available Formats
Hardback
Published: 28th May 2018
Paperback
Published: 7th June 1995
Hardback
Published: 3rd October 2023
Badjelly the Witch: A Fairy Story
By (Author) Spike Milligan
Penguin Group (NZ)
Puffin
28th May 2018
New Zealand
Children
Fiction
Hardback
56
Width 202mm, Height 245mm, Spine 12mm
356g
Badjelly, the baddest witch in all the world, is coming to get you! This full-colour, hardback gift edition of Spike Milligan's hilarious and beloved fairy story comes with an audio CD of the famous BBC radio play so that readers can listen and read along. This beautiful full-colour hardback edition of Badjelly the Witch comes with an audio CD of the famous BBC radio play, starring Spike Milligan, which regularly played on Radio New Zealand's Sunday morning children's programme. This new edition celebrates the 45th anniversary of the beloved story's first publication. Tee hee hee hee! Badjelly the Witch can turn children into sausages or chop them up to make boy-girl soup. She can turn policemen into apple trees or bananas into mice, and she is the wickedest witch in all the world! Tim and Rose's terrifying encounter with Badjelly is a classic fairy tale from the comic genius Spike Milligan. It is a bubbling cauldron of imagination, fun and nonsense that has enthralled generations of children.
Spike Milligan was an English comedian, poet, writer and musician, perhaps best known as one of the goons in the classic BBC radio programme The Goon Show. He went on to become one of Britain's leading comic writers and performers. He died in 2002.