The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Humphrey Carpenter

Mr Majeika's Postbag (London: Penguin/Puffin, 1994).

Mr Majeika and the School Book Week (London: Viking, 1992).

Mr Majeika and the School Inspector (London: Viking, 1993).

Mr Majeika and the School Play (London: Viking, 1992).

Further Television Adventures of Mr Majeika (London: Penguin/Puffin, 1990).

Mr Majeika and the Dinner Lady (London: Viking Kestrel, 1989).

More Television Adventures of Mr Majeika (London: Penguin/Puffin, 1989).

The Television Adventures of Mr Majeika (London: Penguin/Puffin, 1988).

Mr Majeika and the Music Teacher (London: Viking Kestrel, 1986).

Mr Majeika (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Kestrel Books, 1984).

Carpenter's nonfiction was always highly readable, with scholarship worn lightly.

The Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s ( 2002) surveys the titular group – a 1950s journalistic tag rather than an actual movement – which included Kingsley Amis and Colin Wilson. In the television continuity Mr Majeika becomes a magic-wielding humanoid Alien from the planet Walpurgis, whose chief wizard keeps a stern watch over his escapades from afar.įurther biographical subjects with entries in this encyclopedia are W H Auden, Spike Milligan, and Evelyn Waugh and his circle. The books were adapted for Television as the ITV series Mr Majeika ( 1988-1990), in twenty episodes written by Jenny McDade Carpenter based further stories on her scripts. The title character of the Mr Majeika children's fantasy sequence opening with Mr Majeika ( 1984 chap) is a primary school teacher who is also a wizard and enlivens his classes with Magic.

In The Captain Hook Affair ( 1979), a fantasy for children, an enchanted pencil allows the young lead characters to enter the worlds depicted in books, including the wonderlands of J M Barrie and Lewis Carroll. Tolkien (coll 1981) another collaboration of some importance was The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature ( 1984) with Mari Pritchard (see Children's SF). With the assistance of Christopher Tolkien he edited The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends ( 1978), the latter winning the 1978 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1982 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings studies. Tolkien: A Biography ( 1977) and The Inklings: C.S. (1946-2005) UK author and broadcaster, a graduate of Keble College in Oxford, where he read English best known for his popular biographies of literary figures and groups, in particular two sympathetic early studies of J R R Tolkien and his fellow- Inklings: J.R.R.

The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Humphrey Carpenter