Mr Majeika & School Inspector (Kestrel Kites) [Paperback]

Humphrey Carpenter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999 | Series: Kestrel Kites

Poor Mr Majeika gains so many penalty points when the nasty Mr Postlethwaite, a school inspector, comes to inspect that he nearly loses his teacher's licence. However Mr Majeika gets his revenge.

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Delightful Daily Telegraph --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Penguin UK (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670847380
• ISBN-13: 978-0670847389
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,506,058 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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