Humphrey Carpenter

Broschiertes Buch

Mr Majeika and the Lost Spell Book

Beschreibung

The pupils in Class 3 at St Barty's School are not impressed when their head teacher imposes strict rules of behavior for Halloween. Mr Majeika uses a little magic to make the evening memorable but nasty Hamish Bigmore tells the local press and gets the wizard-teacher the sack.

Autor

Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005), the author and creator of Mr Majeika, was born and educated in Oxford. He went to a school called the Dragon School where exciting things often happened and there were some very odd teachers - you could even call it magical! He worked for the BBC then became a full-time writer in 1975, and he was the author of many award-winning biographies, including books about J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Benjamin Britten and Spike Milligan. As well as the Mr Majeika titles, his children's books also included Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits and More Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits. He wrote plays for radio and theatre and founded the children's drama group The Mushy Pea Theatre Company. He played the tuba, double bass, bass saxophone and keyboard. Humphrey once said, 'The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks. Words are the only tricks you need. I can write: "He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings and flew away." And you will believe that it really happened! That's magic, isn't it?'

Produktdetails

• Mr Majeika
• Verlag: Penguin Random House Children's UK
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 131mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 78g
• ISBN-13: 9780141315362
• ISBN-10: 0141315369
• Artikelnr.: 22246032