This story is beautifully heartwarming a surprising mix of humour, adventure and mystery. Only he could be responsible for dreaming up the amazing tales of disciplinary proceedings at Crunchem Hall Primary School. The combination of speaking directly to the reader and crawling into the minds of his characters, is classic Dahl. Within the familiar school ground setting, Roald Dahl takes his readers into the world of one little girl enduring cruelty, loneliness and an overwhelming power to teach lessons to the adults in her life. She must survive a place ruled by the frightening and larger-than-life Miss Trunchbull who has Matilda in her sights, insisting she is “a nasty little worm”. But things don’t become easier for Matilda there. It is not until Matilda attends school and meets the lovely Miss Honey that anyone begins to nurture her talent. “What’s wrong with the telly, for heaven’s sake?” her father demands, while her mother insists that brains never got a woman anywhere. She is oblivious to her brilliance and her parents are less than encouraging. At four she has read all the children’s stories in the library. In this book, Matilda discovers her love of books and by the age of three, has taught herself to read.
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