Humphrey Carpenter - TIMES Obit.
TIMES obituary - Humphrey Carpenter
with Prichard he produced The Oxford Companion to Children?s Literature (1984), and his study of 19th-century children?s books, Secret Gardens (1985), is a modern classic. His own series of Mr Majeika books became a popular children?s TV series with Stanley Baxter, and led to a quixotic and unforgettable exercise in 1992.
