Book description
As a rule, magic carpets don't turn up in schools, but this is
exactly what happens when Class Three s new teacher flies in through
the classroom window and lands on the floor with a bump.
Mr Majeika can behave just like any ordinary teacher if he wants to,
but something has to be done about Hamish Bigmore, the class nuisance,
and so he uses a little magic to turn him into a frog. And to
everyone's delight it looks as if Hamish will have to remain a frog
because Mr Majeika can't remember the spell to turn him back again!
With Mr Majeika in charge, suddenly life at school become much more
exciting there's even a magic-carpet ride to Buckingham Palace!
Humphrey Carpenter was born and educated in Oxford and worked as a
broadcaster for the BBC before becoming a full-time writer in 1975. He
wrote many award-winning biographies, including J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S.
Lewis, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Spike Milligan and others. He also
co-wrote
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
with his wife, Mari Prichard
.
His highly popular
Mr Majeika
series was successfully adapted for television. From 1994 to 1996 he
directed the Cheltenham Festival of Literature and for many years ran a
young people's drama group, The Mushy Pea Theatre Company. Humphrey
Carpenter died in 2005.
