Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge. ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Mrs. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. That fact is kind of sad, isn’t it? Anyway, I absolutely loved it and can’t wait for the my next Dahl book.īuy on Amazon, Buy on Barnes & Noble, Buy from The Book Depository Hello everyone, I’ve recently crawled out from under a rock, because I just read Matilda for the first time! Not only that, it’s my first Roald Dahl book.
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