SuitabookMr Majeika
Humphrey Carpenter
- Reading
- Read together initially if your child wants to talk about the classroom behaviour or transformation. Pause after a magical solution and invite them to predict consequences without assuming the ending.
- Themes
- Magic and authority: Mr Majeika uses magical trickery both to enliven lessons and to deal with difficult behaviour. The magic is presented as comic and exciting, but the transformation of a pupil raises questions about whether authority is being used responsibly.
- School life made fantastical: Ordinary lessons and school routines become unusual through flying, magical transformations and other tricks. The book presents this favourably.
- Worth knowing
- Hamish Bigmore is described as exceptionally unpleasant, and magic turns him into a frog for insolence. Consider whether the humour makes this consequence feel fair, frightening or simply part of the fantasy.