Book description
'I really am quite useless as a wizard.'
But Class Three thinks Mr Majeika is an excellent wizard,
particularly when his spells go wrong! First Hamish Bigmore ends up on
TV, then a real giant appears in the school play. And finally Mr
Majeika gets the whole class lost on a magic carpet! There's always an
adventure with Mr Majeika around...
Humphrey Carpenter worked at the BBC before becaming a full-time
writer in 1975. He was the author of 14 of the well-loved Mr Majeika
titles as well as two Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits titles for
children. He was also the co-author, with his wife Mari Prichard, of The
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. He was an eminent figure in
the world of adult literature and published award-winning biographies
including, among others, those of J. R. R Tolkein, C. S. Lewis, W. H.
Auden, Benjamin Britten and Spike Milligan. From 1994-1996 he directed
the Cheltenham Festival of Literature and for many years he ran a young
people's drama group, the Mushy Pea Theatre Company. He wrote plays for
radio and theatre and was a regular contributor to the Guardian.
Humphrey died in January 2005.
