Matilda Paperback – November 1, 2022

Matilda written by Roald Dahl is a story about a gifted five year old girl named Matilda, who lived with terrible parents that didn't know how special their daughter was. Until, one day she goes to school and meets Miss Honey. Miss Honey is a caring teacher who from day one realized just how brilliant Matilda was. There she also meets the horrific headmistress Miss Trunchbull who hates children and treats Miss Honey awful. In the middle of the novel Matilda realized she has powers to defend herself and others too. She uses these powers against the evil principal Miss Trunchbull. The story gets exciting when Matilda finds out Miss Trunchbull had done something really bad to Miss Honey and Matilda decides to get revenge.I would recommend this book to boys and girls ages six through ten.This book is inspirational and filled with laughter. Children who like fun and heartwarming stories will enjoy this story.

The story is excellent for young readers! The book contains illustrations which will greatly motivate reluctant readers.The cover is also very captivating.The font is great and reader friendly.

A classic story. Great for reading aloud to kids at bedtime

This is such a good book Ive read other books by Roald Dahl, and this one is the best.It is very well written and so interesting,I couldn’t put it down!

Cute and uplifting story. Grandkids loved it

Classic story, short chapters, easy to read and the movie follows the book pretty close. I don’t like convoluted writing. I appreciate the symmetry between literature and film because, personally, it’s more enjoyable to read this way. It also makes it easier to pick up on the slight differences and decide which way you prefer the story to be told. I did prefer the movie version of this story but that takes nothing away from the book. Films are sometimes really good at combining details/characters, omitting excessive fluff or just portraying certain events in a more digestible manner to make the story smoother when watching it, but while reading it, it can sometimes be nice to get the extra bits sorted out. Plenty of quotes will transport you right to the scenes in the movie. I love that because it’s more entertaining to visualize the story in a familiar way as I’m reading. Definitely think this book should be read at least once in your life whether you’re reading it as a child or an an adult.

You should read Matilda by Roald Dahl it will make you feel happy. They talk funny, like calling the principal the headmistress, but that did not bother me. It is a good book. Boys should read it. Girls should read it. Grown-ups should read it. Only people that hate children and are principals that pick kids up by their ears and throw them around should not read this book.Matilda is a nice kid and lives in a big and nice house. Her dad is a bad guy and he buys stolen cars and fixes them up. Matilda’s mom goes out to bingo every day and leaves her home alone. Matilda is a really smart kid. She is smarter than every kid in her school. She has read all the books in the local library. The coolest thing about Matilda is that she can move stuff with her eyes. Really. Listen to this from the book: “She concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes….and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting towards the glass, and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over. She saw it wobble, then it tilted, then it toppled right over and fell with a tinkle on the table-top not twelve inches from Miss Honey’s folded arms.”Miss Honey is very nice to kids of all ages. She is a very sweet person. Miss Honey is Matilda’s Kindergarten teacher. She wants to put Matilda in a class where she will actually learn something new. Miss Trunchbull would not allow that. So Miss Honey went to the other teachers and got Matilda some books to read. She let Matilda read during class. Miss Honey tries to protect the children. She says in the book: “A word of warning to you all … The Headmistress is very strict about everything. Make sure your clothes are clean, your faces are clean and your hands are clean. Speak only when spoken to. When she asks you a question, stand up at once before you answer it. Never argue with her. Never answer back. Never try to be funny. If you do you will make her angry, and when the Headmistress gets angry you had better watch out.” She tries to protect them but needs Matilda’s help.Miss Trunchbull is the principal of the school Matilda goes to. Miss Trunchbull is very mean to children. She picks them up by their ears and throws them around. She also picks them up by their hair and holds them there until they do what she says. She always screams at children instead of talking. The worst thing is that she does things so crazy that the school kid’s parents will never believe what the kids say and Miss Trunchbull will never get in trouble. But the very worst part is that she is the aunt of Matilda’s teacher, Miss Honey. Matilda always outsmarts Miss Trunchbull. Matilda made the chalk of the blackboard move by using her eyes. She made Miss Trunchbull think the ghost of Miss Honey’s father wrote her a note. It scared her so much she ran away.Roald Dahl wrote the book so it made me think I was really there. When he was 8 the principal hit him with a stick for putting a dead mouse in a jawbreaker jar. He was sent to boarding school and he missed his mom very much. He used his real life experience to make his book so very good.