Mr Majeika and the Haunted Hotel

Humphrey Carpenter

feb. 2004 · Mr Majeika Bók 6 · Penguin UK

Um þessa rafbók

Mr Majeika is the most magical teacher around!

Oh, don't be cowards,' said Jody. 'I'm sure it's perfectly safe.'

Mysteriously stranded in the fog at night. Mr Majeika and Class Three find themselves in a creepy hotel near Hadrian's Wall, where some very spooky things start to happen. Strange lights, ghostly sounds and vanishing people...

Look out for more Mr Majeika adventures including:
Mr Majeika and the School Trip
Mr Majeika and the School Play
Mr Majeika and the Lost Spell Book
Mr Majeika and the Music Teacher
Mr Majeika and the School Caretaker

Um höfundinn

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.