MatildaOne of Roald Dahl's most famous children's books. Matilda is a brilliant and sensitive child, but her parents think of her only as a nuisance. Even before she is five years old, she has read Dickens and Hemingway and still her parents think of her as a pest. So she decides to get back at them. Her platinum-haired mother and car salesman father are no match for her sharp genius, and neither is the cruel headmistress Miss Trunchbull. And then the child prodigy discovers she has an extraordinary psychic power that can save her school and especially the lovely kindergarten teacher, Miss Honey. |
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User Review - deaflower - LibraryThingThis is one of my favourite children's stories, because it shows that you can be anything you want to be, regardless of who you are, what you look like, and where you came from. Matilda didn't have a ... Read full review
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User Review - quondame - LibraryThingMatilda is the wee girl with something extra in a family that hasn't any place for her or good will toward anyone. In finding a library and librarian as a pre-schooler she takes steps into a larger ... Read full review
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| Title | Matilda Puffin modern classics : the best writing for children Puffin modern classics |
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| Illustrated by | Quentin Blake |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Limited, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0141314567, 9780141314563 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › Juvenile Fiction / Classics Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic Juvenile Fiction / General |
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