Mr Majeika And the School Book Week (Kestrel kites) - Hardcover

Carpenter, Humphrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670840521 ISBN 13: 9780670840526

Publisher: Puffin, 1992

Synopsis

Another three stories in the the sixth book featuring Mr Majeika and his class, which includes Hamish Bigmore, Pete and Jodie.

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Review

Delightful (Daily Telegraph)

About the Author

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0670840521
• ISBN 13: 9780670840526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96