Wow! This book just kept getting more exciting! My favourite character was Dinah Glass, I feel like she loves adventure and mystery and wants to find...

The reason why the story resonated so much with us kids in the mid-90's was the everyday location of a High School and the strange peculiar behaviour of the pupils - the fact that there wasn't any rowdy behaviour at all as every child followed the rules! A reboot later launched in 2019, which was confirmed to be a direct continuation of the original series as a sequel. All of the original books in the series were released on audiobook, although are now out of print. Most of the books in the series were read by Judy Bennett, although Facing the Demon Headmaster was read by Kelly Hunter and not Judy Bennett. Also The Demon Headmaster (the first of the series) was read by Terrence Hardiman and released on cassette.Kunci dan penyelesaian misterinya memang kekanak-kanakan si pak kepsek ternyata adalah tukang hipnotis yang ingin menguasai negeri, tapi berhasil dihentikan berkat... botol merica, tapi ada nuansa tekanan yang cukup mencekam untuk ukuran novel anak/pra-remaja. Ada refleksi dari ketakutan terhadap rezim totalitarian yang mengekang kebebasan individual, dan si Pak Kepsek sendiri jelas merupakan simbolisme dari tokoh-tokoh dunia nyata yang berhasil memikat begitu banyak orang dengan kharisma mengerikannya.

Just imagine the Demon Headmaster staring at you with these big, dark holes where his eyes should be. But when he invited Dinah to his office to take a test, this is exactly how he watched her. Now this is my favourite part in the story where Dinah meets the Headmaster... for the first time. LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. The third story is called 'Maths Homework', and features a teacher referred to as Old Webster. This is not the Demon Headmaster but is a very similar character. The introduction to the story says, 'Maybe you think you have spotted the Demon Headmaster somewhere. Are you sure? Things aren't always what they seem.' My second review is of Gillian Cross’s story, The Demon Headmaster. This story is largely set in a school environment which is ideal in allowing students to utilise their imaginations as it’s a setting they are familiar with. The story follows Dinah Glass, a new student at school, and she finds it a very strange place right from the start. The children seem different; the games they play aren’t those that Dinah expected. In fact, the children seem to spend play time just memorising facts and reciting time’s tables. You can hardly move your arms and legs, you are so tired. So tired. You feel your head begin to nod, and slowly, slowly... your eyes are starting to close. So tired and sleepy.''He's mad.' Dinah thought muzzily. 'The whole school's raving mad.' But, she felt her eyes start to close. In spite of all she could do, she was drifting.Anyway, Dinah happens to be highly intelligent, which catches the attention of her Headmaster, much to her dismay. This means he tends to use her as a pawn in his possibly nefarious schemes. Complicating matters, Dinah is the only one of the group who is not immune to the Headmaster's powers. Reeves pitched a second series to CBBC, using further elements of Total Control, as well as its sequel, Mortal Danger. [5] Cast [ edit ] The story continues with a new group of children, in a new school, without SPLAT's members. The stories centers on Lizzie, her younger brother, their friend Ethan and Angelika. Lizzie and her brother return from the United States, where their mother had surgery. After returning to their school, they realise that the school has a new headmaster and the students are showing exceptional talents, even their bully enemy Blake. However Lizzie suddenly starts to behave aggressive against the school, her brother becomes a robotics genius and their recent made friend Ethan becomes a soccer star. But when they try to talk, or even think about those sudden changes, their minds goes blank. Ethan eventually discover that the Headmaster is hypnotising and controlling everybody in the school. They team up with Angelika (a girl who suddenly became a coffee business enthusiast) and even Blake (who became a Multilingual greeter) and discovers the great plot of The Headmaster to show to the Prime Minister the great results of the school, thus allowing The Headmaster to administer other schools.

Foster child Dinah is hiding a useful secret when she is housed with the brothers, and finds herself puzzled by her new school, by the immaculately turned out and behaved pupils, by the frankly hypnotic Headmaster, and by her new foster brother's treatment of her... just what is going on? The prime minister's brain / Gillian Cross; illustrated by Sally Burgess". Explore the British Library . Retrieved 8 July 2021. Since then he has become a digital consultant and strategy developer, building his own businesses and helping start-up companies form their online branding, social media and web presences. Dinah moves in with the Hunter family and starts going to the same school as her foster-brothers Lloyd and Harvey. It's not easy, as they seem to hate her, and school is really strange. Pupils suddenly talk like robots and do weird things - even Dinah finds herself acting oddly. She's sure the headmaster has some kind of power over them. About This Edition ISBN:Dinah Thinks she knows all the facts. The headmaster, the kids and the school. Eventually her foster brothers tell her what is going on. The headmaster hypnotizes everyone, but Lloyd and Harvey (as well as a few others) cannot be hypnotized. Before Dinah turns into the headmasters slave, they use her to spy on him. They figure out that his master plan and stop him carrying it out. The Demon Headmaster is a British television series based on the children's books by Gillian Cross of the same name. Made for CBBC, the drama was first broadcast between 1996 and 1998. The first series contained six episodes, and aired twice weekly from 2 to 18 January 1996, the second series contained seven episodes and aired weekly from 25 September to 6 November 1996, and the third series contained six episodes and aired twice weekly from 6 to 22 January 1998. Trance Dance: Encourage children to choreograph a sequence of expressive dance movements inspired by the Demon Headmaster's hypnotic powers, experimenting with different interpretations of being hypnotised. Frances Amey as Dinah Glass (credited as Dinah Hunter from Series 1: Part 2) and Eve (Series 2, credited as Dinah/Eve for episodes in which both characters appear) [7]

With the Prime Minister due to visit Hazelbrook, Lizzie must rally the gang and stop the Headmaster. But she must face her mistakes, and outsmart the Headmaster. Dinah moves in with the Hunter's family in Conningham and begins to go to school ( St Champions) with her foster brothers Lloyd and Harvey. Dinah finds adjusting to school life hard; thinking that is rather strange and out-of-the-ordinary: pupils suddenly talk like robots and do weird things - even Dinah finds herself acting oddly. She's sure the headmaster has some kind of power over them, and is determined to find out more. But the Demon Headmaster is equally determined to stop her.

One of the great characters of children’s books, the Demon Headmaster rules his school with his sea-green eyes through which he hypnotises the pupils. When Dinah arrives she sets up SPLAT, a group designed to protect the pupils from the head’s paranormal powers and to break his dictatorship. From the very first day at her new school, Dinah can see that something is horribly wrong. The children are strangely neat and well-behaved and they even work during break. What's going on? How can she find out the truth? And what is the secret of the Headmaster's control? Gunnar stopped acting for 12 years after The Demon Headmaster, but then returned to the industry in 2010. He also spent seven years playing Officer Dwayne Myers in crime mystery Death in Paradise, announcing he wouldn’t be returning to the role in 2019. This is a really fun and engaging book to read with a class as it uses lots of descriptive language to bring the characters and book to life. Due to the nature of the book, which involves hypnotism and robotic like characteristics, students enjoy reading the text out loud (during shared reading) as they get to act the lines out using their best robot and hypnotic voices.