Humphrey Carpenter’s Mr Majeika and the School Inspector is a funny magic story for 6 year olds about a teacher who used to be a wizard.<\/p>\n
Mr Majeika teaches Class Three at St Barty’s. He’s supposed to have given up magic. Mostly he manages it. Mostly!<\/p>\n
Then a man with a dripping moustache climbs in through the classroom window. It’s Mr Postlethwaite, Inspector of Teachers, and he talks like a telegram. Ten penalty points and Mr Majeika loses his job for good.<\/p>\n
Hamish Bigmore, the naughtiest boy in the class, is delighted. He tells the inspector that Mr Majeika once turned him into a frog. The points start piling up fast.<\/p>\n
That’s the first of three short stories. In the second, Mr Majeika gets so cross with Hamish that a spell goes wrong and he ends up in the fish tank as a lobster. Jody has to come up with a very risky plan involving Wilhelmina Worlock, the witch who can’t stand him.<\/p>\n
In the third, Class Three design their dream classroom and Mr Majeika magics each model big enough to walk around inside. Melanie’s is a pink nursery with a giant teddy. Hamish’s is made of Lego and has a Death Ray Gun in the cupboard!<\/p>\n
It’s a lovely read-aloud. The stories are short and full of daft voices, and there’s always a grown-up being completely ridiculous. Who doesn’t enjoy an inspector who takes a thermometer out of his briefcase to check a castle is warm enough?<\/p>\n
Hamish is a brilliant baddie for this age. He’s rude, he sticks his tongue out and he never does his homework. But as the twins point out, he somehow has a knack of making things turn out right.<\/p>\n
Everything here is played for laughs, even the ghostly king waving an axe. It’s a good one for a child just starting to read chapters on their own, or for sharing at bedtime.<\/p>\n
If this one goes down well, go back to where Mr Majeika first flies in, on a magic carpet through Class Three’s window one rainy Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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