BBC Shop Matilda Author: Roald Dahl Trade Paperback Usually ships in 24 hours Delivery is subject to warehouse availability. Shipping delays may occur if we receive more orders than stock. Our Price: $8.99 You could save $0.90 (10%) with our iREWARDS Program Ordering is 100% secure . Spend $39 or more at chapters.indigo.ca and your order ships free!. ( Details ) Dimensions: 240 Pages | ISBN: 0141301066 Published: May 1998 | Published by Penguin Uk Our customers who bought this item also bought: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (1998) Book ~ Roald Dahl Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator (1998) Book ~ Roald Dahl Fantastic Mr. Fox (1998) Book ~ Roald Dahl The Twits (1998) Book ~ Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach (1996) Book ~ Roald Dahl chapters.indigo Review Matilda is a genius who teaches herself to read at age three, can multiply 14 by 19 in her head and can compose limericks on command. She is not only brilliant, she is sweet and polite and good-hearted. Unfortunately, Matilda has horrible parents who think she is a rotten kid, when they think about her at all. Her father is a crook, her mother is a twit, her brother is a bit dim, and none of them treat Matilda very well at all. But Matilda's magnificent brain allows her to devise delicious types of revenge, like crazy-gluing her father's hat to his bumpy head. When Matilda finally starts school, she is far too intelligent to be challenged by first grade work. Fortunately, she adores her teacher, Miss Honey, who recognizes Matilda's exceptional abilities and brings her geometry books to study while the other children practice their two-times tables. Enter the Trunchbull -- Miss Trunchbull, the terrifying headmistress who is gigantic, ugly and rotten to the core. Dahl is notorious for his grotesque adult characters, but Trunchbull takes the cake -- she picks up little girls by their pigtails and practices the hammer toss with them. She makes one boy eat chocolate cake until he is almost sick and calls all the children nasty names like "blister," "ignorant little slug," and "witless weed." Trunchbull doesn't believe that Matilda is a genius, but when she falsely accuses Matilda of a terrible prank, Matilda's abilities prove exceptional, indeed. This is a deftly-wrought story that is funny, sad and yet sweetly hopeful -- the ending brings a kind of disbelieving relief. Ages 7-11. Reader Reviews Average Reader Review: Number of Reviews: 4 1. matilda Reviewer: Ffeon Elliot from aurora/ontario (lizzyfee@hotmail.com) Date: 8/6/2000 12:54:30 PM matilda is a girl that has the most horrable family. They dont even care about her and leaves her home alone and every day she walks to the libary and that how she becomes resonsable for her self. shes 7 years old now and she still doesnt go to school and then that when she learns her power and that she can use her power only when shes mad at someone so that means she can use it every day at her parents.and finley she can go to school and she mets the most meansest head master the head master who uses her wait lifting on the puples and thats when matilda mets the most nicest teacher in the world miss.honey. 2. Matilda Reviewer: Devon Fisher from Delta,BC Date: 5/18/2000 5:59:21 PM I'd say this is Roald Dahl's best book since 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. The main character is a girl who is a genuis with idiot parents. 3. Matilda Reviewer: Aqeela from Vancouver, B.C Date: 10/29/1999 8:57:55 PM An EXELENT BOOK!!!!! Reading the book is ALWAYS better than the movie. The author is very famous because he knows how to write a good book. This story is the best I have ever read!! This is a story in wich you can read over, and over angain and never get bored with. 4. Matilda Reviewer: Harmony-Jaclyn from North York, Ontario Date: 10/10/1999 9:49:40 PM This book is very good. It resembles the movie, but better because it is just plain awesome. If you loved the movie then you just have to read the book. You are guaranteed to love it. 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