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Matilda is a genius. Unfortunately, her family treats her like a dolt. Her crooked car-salesman father and loud, bingo-obsessed mother think Matilda's only talent is as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong in their miserable lives. But it's not long before the sweet and sensitive child decides to fight back. Faced with practical jokes of sheer brilliance, her parents don't stand a chance.

Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.

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Overview

Matilda is a genius. Unfortunately, her family treats her like a dolt. Her crooked car-salesman father and loud, bingo-obsessed mother think Matilda's only talent is as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong in their miserable lives. But it's not long before the sweet and sensitive child decides to fight back. Faced with practical jokes of sheer brilliance, her parents don't stand a chance.

Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.

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Matilda is an extraordinarily gifted four-year-old whose parentsa crass, dishonest used-car dealer and a self-centered, blowsy bingo addictregard her as ``nothing more than a scab.'' Life with her beastly parents is bearable only because Matilda teaches herself to read, finds the public library, and discovers literature. Also, Matilda loves using her lively intelligence to perpetrate daring acts of revenge on her father. This pastime she further develops when she enrolls in Crunchem Hall Primary School, whose headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, is ``a fierce tyrannical monster . . . .'' Adults may cringe at Dahl's excesses in describing the cruel Miss Trunchbull, as well as his reliance on overextended characterization at the expense of plot development. Children, however, with their keenly developed sense of justice, will relish the absolutes of stupidity, greed, evil and might versus intelligence, courage and goodness. They also will sail happily through the contrived, implausible ending. Dahl's phenomenal popularity among children speaks for his breathless storytelling charms; his fans won't be disappointed by Matilda. Blake's droll pen-and-ink sketches extend the exaggerated humor. Ages 9-11. (Oct.)
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Gr 2-6-Resourceful Matilda is saddled with two hellish parents and an even worse headmistress. The evil Mrs. Trenchbull is out to get Miss Honey, Matilda's beloved teacher, and thinks nothing of flinging young innocents into nail-festooned boxes by their hair. Not to worry: Superbright Matilda dishes out revenge in high-comic style in this delicious page-turner for readers looking for laughs.
—Cheryl Scheer, Denver P.L., CO Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Children's Literature
She taught herself to read by the time she was three. When she was four, she'd finished all the children's books in the library and moved on to Dickens, Austen, Hemmingway and H.G. Wells. Matilda Wormwood is a genius cursed with heartless, half-witted, self-centered parents. Her father is a dishonest used car salesman; her mother, a soap-opera addict whose idea of a gourmet meal is a TV dinner. Unconcerned with their daughter's education, they enroll her late in the Crunchem Hall Primary School. Matilda's prodigious talents are soon recognized by her teacher. Miss Honey tries to secure an advanced placement for her gifted student. However, the school's muscle-bound, kid-hating headmistress won't consider it. A sadist in green britches, Miss Trunchbull's cruelty knows no bounds. Matilda learns to tap into her psychic powers. With mind over matter, she frees Crunchem Hall from Trunchbull's reign of terror and secures Miss Honey's professional and financial future. Her own "happily ever after" comes when she convinces her parents to leave her in Miss Honey's care as they flee the country two steps ahead of the police. It's a quirky tale that's delightfully Dahl. 1998 (orig.
School Library Journal
Gr 4-6 Dahl's latest piece of madcap mayhem is a story filled with the elements that his fans cravesardonic humor, the evilest of villians, the most virtuous of heroines, and children who eventually defeat those big bad grown-ups. In this book, Matilda isn't just smart, she is ``extra-ordinary. . .sensitive and brilliant,'' reading Great Expectations as a four year old. Unfortunately, her TV-addict parents neither recognize nor appreciate their daughter's genius. Neglected Matilda finds mentors in librarian Mrs. Phelps and teacher Miss Honey, a woman as sweet as her name implies. Miss Honey, Matilda, and other students are tormented by the child-hating headmistress Trunchbull. Trunchbull has also cheated orphaned niece Miss Honey out of her rightful inheritance, leaving the teacher in extreme poverty. Having practiced revenge techniques on her father, Matilda now applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of Trunchbull and restore Miss Honey's financial security. If the conclusion is a bit too rapid, the transitions between Matilda's home and school life a bit choppy, and the writing style not as even as in some of Dahl's earlier titles, young readers won't mind. Dahl has written another fun and funny book with a child's perspective on an adult world. As usual, Blake's comical sketches are the perfect complement to the satirical humor. This may not be a teacher's or principal's first choice as a classroom read-aloud, but children will be waiting in line to read it. Heide Piehler, Shorewood Public Lib . , Wis.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780142402535
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 9/23/2004
  • Edition description: Ages 8 up
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 20,121
  • Age range: 8 - 12 Years
  • Lexile: 840L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.04 (w) x 7.10 (h) x 0.63 (d)

Meet the Author

Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to 'a wonderful faraway place'. In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children's books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.

The BFG is dedicated to the memory of Roald Dahl's eldest daughter, Olivia, who died from measles when she was seven – the same age at which his sister had died (fron appendicitis) over forty years before.

Quentin Blake, the first Children’s Laureate of the United Kingdom, has illustrated most of Roald Dahl’s children’s books.

Biography

"I have never met a boy who so persistently writes the exact opposite of what he means," a teacher once wrote in the young Roald Dahl's report card. "He seems incapable of marshaling his thoughts on paper." From such inauspicious beginnings emerged an immensely successful author whom The Evening Standard would one day dub "one of the greatest children's writers of all time."

Dahl may have been an unenthusiastic student, but he loved adventure stories, and when he finished school he went out into the world to have some adventures of his own. He went abroad as a representative of the Shell corporation in Dar-es-Salaam, and then served in World War II as a pilot in the Royal Air Force. After the war, Dahl began his writing career in earnest, publishing two well-received collections of short stories for adults, along with one flop of a novel.

The short stories, full of tension and subtle psychological horror, didn't seem to presage a children's author. Malcolm Bradbury wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "[Dahl's] characters are usually ignoble: he knows the dog beneath the skin, or works hard to find it." Yet this talent for finding, and exposing, the nastier sides of grown-up behavior served him well in writing for children. As Dahl put it, "Writing is all propaganda, in a sense. You can get at greediness and selfishness by making them look ridiculous. The greatest attribute of a human being is kindness, and all the other qualities like bravery and perseverance are secondary to that."

In 1953, Dahl married the actress Patricia Neal; two of his early children's books, James and the Giant Peach (1961) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) grew out of the bedtime stories he made up for their children. Elaine Moss, writing in the Times, called the latter "the funniest children's book I have read in years; not just funny but shot through with a zany pathos which touches the young heart." Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a colossal hit. A film version starring Gene Wilder was released in 1971 (as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), while James and the Giant Peach was made into a movie in 1996.

Dahl followed his initial successes with a string of bestsellers, including Danny, the Champion of the World, The Twits, The BFG, The Witches and Matilda. Some adults objected to the books' violence -- unpleasant characters (like James’s Aunts Sponge and Spiker) tend to get bumped off in grotesque and inventive ways -- but Dahl defended his stories as part of a tradition of gruesome fairy tales in which mean people get what they deserve. "These tales are pretty rough, but the violence is confined to a magical time and place," he said, adding that children like violent stories as long as they're "tied to fantasy and humor." By the time of his death in 1990, Dahl's mischievous wit had captivated so many readers that The Times called him "one of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation."

Good To Know

When Dahl was in school, he and his schoolmates occasionally served as new-product testers for the Cadbury chocolate company. Dahl used to dream of working in a chocolate manufacturer's inventing room. He wrote in his autobiography, "I have no doubt at all that, 35 years later, when I was looking for a plot for my second book for children, I remembered those little cardboard boxes and the newly invented chocolates inside them, and I began to write a book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

Dahl's first book for children, The Gremlins (1943), was a story about the mythical creatures that sabotaged British planes. (Dahl claimed for most of his life that he had coined the term "gremlins," but it had been in use by members of the Royal Air Force for years.) Walt Disney planned to use it as the basis for a movie, but the project was scrapped, and only 5,000 copies of the book were ever printed.

    1. Date of Birth:
      September 13, 1916
    2. Place of Birth:
      Llandaff, Wales, England
    1. Date of Death:
      November 23, 1990
    2. Place of Death:
      Oxford, England

Table of Contents

The Reader of Books 7
Mr Wormwood, the Great Car Dealer 22
The Hat and the Superglue 30
The Ghost 38
Arithmetic 49
The Platinum-Blond Man 56
Miss Honey 66
The Trunchbull 82
The Parents 90
Throwing the Hammer 101
Bruce Bogtrotter and the Cake 117
Lavender 134
The Weekly Test 141
The First Miracle 159
The Second Miracle 170
Miss Honey's Cottage 177
Miss Honey's Story 193
The Names 206
The Practice 210
The Third Miracle 215
A New Home 227

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 15, 2008

    My Favorite Book of All Time!!! Always Forever!!!

    Matilda is wonderful book for people of all ages. I have read it about three or four times! Matilda is funny, cute, and inspiring. I recomend this book to everyone!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 5, 2000

    What an Awesome Book!!!

    As a class we read this book weekly. My students love Matilda because she knows how to trick her parents. Ms. Trunchbull is a character we love to hate. We especially love the chapter on Bruce Bogtrotter. Very funny... We strongly recommend this book to anyone who loves Raold Dahl.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 21, 2000

    Best Roald Dahl Book Ever!

    Matilda was a very very good book to read. I would recommend it to kids 8-12. Roald Dahl's writing gave you a clear picture of what you were reading in Matilda. If you are close to a book store, run out and buy this book now and enjoy reading it, like I did!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 17, 1999

    Matilda

    Matilda is about a young girl named Matilda. Matilda seems like the average child on the outside, but on the inside is very smart and mischievious. Besides dealing with the averagefamily problems, her family doesn't even love her. They dislike her because she is smart. Eventually, Matilda becomes so bored, because she isn't challenged enough, that she developes powers that enable her to do things by staring at it. In the end, everything works out for her, but how that happens is very exciting. You'll have to read 'Matilda', by Rauld Dahl to find out what happens.

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 2, 2010

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    Thrilling, Great, whatever you would like to call it!

    I thought Matilda was an extremely good book. I read it over a year ago, but I just remember not wanting to take my eyes off of it. It is a classic, and like all Roald Dahl books, will definitely satisfy you until the book falls apart. (That is why I would recommend the hard cover.)

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 19, 2010

    GREAT READ

    I LOVED THIS BOOK USUALLY I AM A SLOW READER BUT THIS BOOK TOOK ME ONLY 2 NIGHTS TO READ. 'TS ONE OF THOSE BOOKS THAT YOU WOULD STAY UP ALL NIGHT READING. IT HAS BEAUTIFUL DESCRIPTAVE WRITING NOT TO MANY PICTURES THOUGH BUT YOU DONT EVEN NEED THEM YOU CAN IMAGINE IT RIGHT IN YOUR HEAD.

    EMMA :)

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  • Posted January 18, 2010

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    Awesome!

    One of the best books by Roald Dahl along with The BFG. This book never gets old and it is hilarious!!!!

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  • Posted November 2, 2009

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    An Absolute classic

    I purchased this book.

    Matilda is the classic story of an incredible smart little girl who develops telekinesis and uses it, not to improve her own horrible home life, but to help others. Don't know it? Perhaps you should.

    The differences between the book and movie versions are minute, but present. The movie is more Americanized and the story is smoother, but it lacks one of the books very strong points-a higher level of vocabulary.

    In Matilda Dahl (also the author of The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches and James and Giant Peach) presents his typical style, pitting a child against horrible adults who actively hate or seek to do the child harm. The title character lives in a home that not only doesn't appreciate her high level of intelligence, but ridicules it because her family is intimidated and scared by it. Matilda's family is emotionally abusive and neglectful, which some parents would seek to avoid, but I find an honest approach to life. Dahl's books don't treat children like they can't handle the darker side of things. Dahl doesn't ignore that there are some pretty crappy people out there, and sometimes they happen to have kids.

    Dahl, unlike a lot of authors, presents childhood as a battlefield. However not all children are perfect angels (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is an example here), and not all adults are horrendous bullies. In Matilda her family may be part of the problem, but she finds an ally in her teacher, Miss Honey, who is a survivor of a bullied childhood.

    Through the book we learn not about revenge on bad people, or being nice despite being bullied and neglected, Dahl teaches kids to recognize and treasure the good parts of life, without letting the bad parts define themselves, or their experience.

    Also a smart part of this book is the accelerated vocabulary, which again, shows that Dahl distinctly decides not to treat children as incapable or juvenile. Because of the number of big words, all used in a context that makes them easy to understand, this book is best read as a collaborative effort between an adult and child, unless an child closer to teendom is the reader.

    I highly recommend Matilda on every level, especially because in the realm of fiction girls are often sentenced to be side kicks and creatures of first crushes, but Matilda is a strong, independent, intelligent girl who solves problems on her own. Matilda is the precursor to the more recent Coraline, with less a less scary and a more over the top spin.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 9, 2000

    wonderful

    This Book is a outstanding book

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 29, 2012

    Fun to read

    My fourth grade students are reading Matilda. They love the diverse "good guy", "bad guy" characters that Dahl develops. Vocabulary is rich and the adventures and determination of bright little Matilda make for a delightful read. We read Witches, by Dahl, earlier in the year. He is, indeed, an entertaining author!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 12, 2012

    I loved the book so much, that i decided to write a poem about i

    I loved the book so much, that i decided to write a poem about it!

    I was always pushed around,
    But this is the story of how I was found!
    In a way its a sad story, but at the end there is glory!

    I had nobody to turn to,
    But I never lost hope.
    I knew that when I found a friend,
    I would be able to cope.

    Next, I had found a friend that accepts me for me,
    She is a true friend indeed, that's her guarentee!
    She doesn't care about my flaws, that's what a friend would do,
    She's made my life so much better, Miss Honey, that person is you!

    You have taught me to stand up for mtself and to never cry,
    I know that I can be honest with you, and to never lie.
    Thank you for taking the horrible things in my life away,
    I promise to be there, loyal, and respectful to you each and every day!

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  • Posted March 5, 2012

    Slow

    Matilda by Roald Dahl is about a small, sweet girl who is a genius. She deals with over-exaggerated bullies in her parents and the headmistress of her school. Her father is a used car salesman who thinks females are dumb and only useful in the kitchen. Her mother believes a girl should focus on being pretty to catch a man. Both her parents love TV and hate books. While the headmistress is a giant of a bully, Matilda finds a confidant in her teacher Miss Jennifer Honey.
    The plot is slow-moving and I think ends rather abruptly but overall it was ok and slightly amusing. Some reviewers complained the adults were too idiotic and overly abusive. In my own experience this is typical of British literature. Yes, the characters tend to be one-dimensional, but this is a children’s book published several years ago. For those who complained it was unbelievable—it is a fantasy, it’s not meant to be believable.
    This won’t make my list of favorites but I would still consider it a contender for classic in British children’s literature.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 3, 2011

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    Better than I thought

    I was assigned this book for summer reading an was suprised to fing it very interesting! Wish there was more than 1 of this book.

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  • Posted February 19, 2011

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    Even though I really liked the book, I love the movie more.

    Roald Dahl's books from what I've heard, while are kids books, they're a little dark with memorable characters whether it be the main character and or villain. This book's about a girl name Matilda whose parent's don't treat her right. She starts school and meets the infamous Miss Trunchbull and the kind teacher Miss Honey who has her own secrets. You'll most likely remember memorable moments from Bruce and the cake to the mention of the Choky and lastly the ending. I really liked how the story was written. After reading the book it in a way, made me appreciate the movie. Both have a good message in the end. You'll notice that they're some scenes that were not in the movie or were arranged differently. As is with practically every book turned into a movie. Despite all that, I still recommend both book and movie Matilda.

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  • Posted December 15, 2010

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    Matilda

    The book Matilda was a very inspiring story and it really spoke to me. It inspired me on how strong a young girl can be or how strong anyone can be. Matilda was a very brave girl. She out up with her parents and annoying brother bickering at her and most of all her mean, filthy, dirty, and rotten principal Mrs. Trunchbull. Matilda did have people in her life that were nice to her and helped her with struggles. She had her friends and most importantly she had her teacher, Mrs. Honey. This story really spoke to me as a human being saying to not give up on life when it is hard. Matilda was a very smart and intelligent girl. She did sixth grade math. But at home she had to fend for herself. She made her own breakfast at a young age and she loved to read. She would always go to the library. It made me think personally to be happy for what you have and that I should be grateful for it because some people don't have a lot of things like I do. Something else that I was thinking of was that when life gets tough and nothing is going right for you, don't give up on life because eventually it will get better. You just have to be patient and wait. Keep trying and doing your best on everything. Another thing is don't let people control you and don't let people tell you wrong. The other thing that inspired me was that Matilda actually put up with her parents when they were really mean to her and they didn't really help her.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 1, 2010

    Nostalgic!

    Absolutely one of my all time favorite books! Ever since my mother bought this book for me from my elementary school book fair (17 years ago!!) I still go back to it EVERY year to read it! I love reading it and feeling like a little girl reading my first "big girl book" because it was more than 100 pages!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 25, 2010

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    Fantastic!!!!!!!!!

    It's one of Dahl's longer books but it's worth it. The characters are so real. Well desribed in every category. 10 out of 10 from me.

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  • Posted May 10, 2010

    Matilda

    If you are in for a fantastic, thrilling, and challenging book, read Matilda! I would greatly recommend to those who love to read. Matilda is the best book iv'e ever read out of the whole Ronald Dahl books! I will greatly recommend it!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 14, 2009

    Matilda has powers

    Roald made a really funny book called Matilda in this book you will discover that Matilda's parents are really mean to Matilda. But Matilda discovers power that she can lift stuff with here eyes. In this book there was one funny part was when Mrs.Wormwood said "i chose looks you chose books" Mrs.Wormwood said. Mrs.Wormwood called Miss honey Miss chunky.

    Then in one of the parts in the book Miss Trunchbul the head of the the school puts kids into the chocky only when they have done something bad. So Miss Trunchbul puts Matilda into the chocky. Filled with nails, glass, and you can't move because it's so small. Miss Honey Matilda teacher is vary kind to here. And i think you would like to read it and i forgot to tell you Matilda is a genius.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 14, 2009

    Matilda is a really great book.

    This book, Matilda by Roald Dahl, is about a young girl who was born into a family that doesn't always take knowledge her great mind power. Matilda discovers one day that she has an amazing power with her eyes. Soon she would realize that she could not only knock things over, but she could also pick things up. What is she going to do next? The story ends in a very happy way. Matilda gets away from her bad family and finds new and better one.
    I think this book was one of the best books that I have ever read. It was very funny. In some parts you were dying to find out what was going to happen. I liked the son, Mike, because he say the funniest line in the whole book. It is, "Oh my gawd dad, what have you done to your hair.

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