Matilda Wormwood reads her way through a library before she is old enough for school, and Roald Dahl lets that appetite set her against the adults around her.
Penguin UK's 256-page paperback carries the story of a small girl with formidable parents, a fiercer headmistress in Miss Trunchbull, and one teacher, Miss Honey, who notices what she can actually do. Dahl's comedy stays sharp and the villains are drawn broadly, part of why the book reads aloud so well to children not yet tackling it alone.
Why it lasts:
• A heroine defined by her reading rather than by luck
• Adult characters drawn with Dahl's usual comic exaggeration
• A 256-page paperback in the Penguin UK edition
• Chapters that work well read aloud a few at a time
Long-standing reading for primary-school children, classroom sets and parents reading at bedtime, published by Penguin UK and available at Boipoka.
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