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But rules are made to be broken, and that’s exactly what happens when Class Three’s new teacher flies in through the classroom window and lands on the floor with a bump! Within this creepy hotel some very spooky things starts to happen and immediately captures the reader’s attention. Hamish Bigmore finds himself on the wrong end of Mr Majeika's powers after causing problems with his fellow students.At some point in our childhoods, many of us would have wished that we could do magic so that we could fly or make things disappear and reappear again. My favourite chapters were the ones where Mr Potter struggled to comprehend the impossible feats before his very eyes. The first example is during lunchtime when one of the student’s lunch drops onto the floor and Mr Majeika picks it up and asks the child “What is your favourite food”. 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. Mr Majeika,the School Trip,Mr Majeika and the Lost Spell Book,the Ghost Train, the Dinner Lady, the School Caretaker, the Music Teacher, the Haunted Hotel, the School Book Week, the Internet,.

Unfortunately there's only one applicant - Hamish Bigmore's Uncle Wilf who is just as rude and bad-tempered as Hamish. Class Three is astonished when their new teacher, Mr Majeika flies in through the window on a magic carpet. The use of complex sentences are also of a good quality which would be beneficial to any child throughout his education within Key stage 2. School without magic seems rather boring and Mr Majeika doesn't last long in the other jobs he tries.

Majeika is an irrepressible wizard sent to "Britland" from the planet Walpurgis because he failed his O-level sorcery exam for the seventeenth time. My 5-year-old loved listening to this, he's not old enough for Harry Potter, but this should lead nicely into The Worst Witch and eventually to Rowling's books. I thought this was a brilliant, funny and amusing book because the characters are interesting like Melanie who cries a lot and Hamish who is naughty. All of the characters are unique in their own way: Melanie always cries, Pandora Green and Hamish are bullies and Thomas and Pete are just normal children and so is Jody. One of the most dramatic moments in the book where as a reader you wonder has Mr Majeika taken it a step too far, is during a nature lesson where the class are learning about tadpoles and how they turn into frogs.

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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In one primary school, the class meet their new teacher, who immediately shows himself to be a little different. First he turns the class troublemaker Hamish Bigmore into a frog, and then he gives Class Three magical flying powers!The pupils in Class 3 at St Barty's School are not impressed when their headteacher imposes strict rules of behaviour for Halloween.

Both of these characters are also in the books, but Melanie is a much less important and very different type of character in the books, and is replaced by another character as female lead, Jody. 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. School without magic seems rather boring and Mr Majeika doesn't last long in the other jobs he tries. I'm reading Stig of the Dump as I'm writing this review, and Stig uses great language and memorable description. He thereafter astounds them with magical trickery which bring lessons to life, whether it is providing chips during dinner for all the children, or turning the nasty Hamish Bigmore into a frog for his insolence.

Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005), the author and creator of Mr Majeika, was born and educated in Oxford. Hamish begins to be kind to everyones astonishment but has he really changed or is there a bigger prize he has his eye on?