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Matilda

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Matilda by Roald Dahl

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By Roald Dahl

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“A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero” David Walliams
Matilda’s parents have called her some terrible things, but the truth is she’s a genius and they’re the stupid ones. Underestimating Matilda proves to be a big mistake as they, along with her spiteful headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, soon find out when Matilda discovers she has a very special power.

Reviews

10 Jul 2023

It was a really good book. The funny part is when matilda puts glue on her dads hat and it gets stuck on her dads head

08 Jul 2023

This is my favourite book

08 Jul 2023

Good book

07 Jul 2023

i like roald dahl books. they are very intresting.

05 Jul 2023

I liked the book Matilda because it was a fun book

05 Jul 2023

My thoughts is that Matilda is an smart,amazing and beautiful girl but dose not have the best parents and my favorite character is Matilda and this is fiction.

02 Jul 2023

It was really good and I really enjoy reading it. I could really understand the book and the pictures are really nice. (credit to Quentin Blake) It was even better than the movie!

01 Jul 2023

This is great because Matilda is magic

30 Jun 2023

It was really funny because the dad got green hair

30 Jun 2023

I think this a pretty interesting book because I loved Matilda when I was younger so I am properly still going to love and if it is still out I am going to read it to my children

30 Jun 2023

MairiG

I read Matilda when I was preparing for a Book assembly at school. I had read parts of it when my daughter was first reading it ( bedtime reading - picking up where she’d left off the night before and having to quickly work out what was going on 😁 ) and had seen the film and most recently the film of the musical but I’m not sure that I’d actually read it myself.

I love the description of Matilda’s visits to the Library. 📚

29 Jun 2023

I loved this book because it challenges Mrs Trunchball

28 Jun 2023

I like Matilda but I like the musical more

28 Jun 2023

I love the bit where Matilda talks about life and goes to the library

27 Jun 2023

I love reading but I don’t like the parents there so mean!

26 Jun 2023

There is a little girl called Matilda and she likes reading a lot, but her parents don't let her. Her parents are also horrible to her like calling her names.

25 Jun 2023

great read.

18 Jun 2023

I loved that she loved to learn new things like me

26 May 2023

I really liked all the people at the school apart from Ms Trunchbull.

14 Feb 2023

Matilda loves to read. When she goes to school, she meets horrid headteacher Mrs Trunchball.

30 Jan 2023

It was very intresting and exciting and it was great.

29 Jan 2023

I loved this story. I enjoyed some really funny bits and wording which I still like to use as if I was Matilda myself!!

28 Jan 2023

This was a fiction book and I prefer factual books. I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys Roald Dahl books

19 Jan 2023

This was the first Roald Dahl book I read and it was amazing, I really did like it so I would really recommend it.

My two favourite parts of the book was when 1. Matilda started school on her first day and, Miss Honey was surprised by Matilda reading a book for young adults or younger and 2. When Matilda spilled the cup with a newt inside in front of Miss Trunchbull.

Overall I would rate this a 4/5 stars.

18 Jan 2023

i really liked this book because it's really good and sometimes funny. i love Matilda's quirkiness and cleverness. i would suggest this book to people who like Roald Dahl.

14 Jan 2023

I liked this book because it was really interesting but I didn’t like miss trunchball. It was fiction and my favourite charter was miss Honey Scarlet.

04 Jan 2023

I like the things that Matilda can do, especially when she gets cross.

03 Jan 2023

This book teaches everyone to be kind because a little girl called Matilda is so kind to people. First, her life isn't that good because her adoptive parents are so mean to her but later on in the book she ends up getting adopted by her lovely teacher called miss Honey and they live happily ever after

01 Jan 2023

My favourite character is Matilda.

I like Matilda because she's smart, kind, has magical powers and most importantly she stood up to the bully Miss Trunchbull.

I like Matilda because reading is my favourite thing and Matilda loves reading too. I love going to the library too!

I would recommend it to anyone, because it's such a great story, and Matilda finally found a mom who loves her, and they were able to chase The Trunchbull away, so they got the big house and the school! Also, Miss Honey was the headteacher!

23 Dec 2022

It told you that you should always read and learning is a wonderful thing to do.

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