Matilda (Spanish)

by Roald Dahl

Overview

Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780606414227
Publisher:	Perfection Learning Corporation
Publication date:	04/04/2019
Edition description:	Bound for Schools & Libraries ed.
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)
Language:	Spanish
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

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.

Date of Birth:

September 13, 1916

Date of Death:

November 23, 1990

Place of Birth:

Llandaff, Wales, England

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

Editorial Reviews

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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