Matilda

Author(s): Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake

Junior/Middle Fiction

Matilda is a brilliant and sensitive child, but her parents think of her only as a nuisance. Even before she is five years old, she has read Dickens and Hemingway and still her parents think of her as a pest. So she decides to get back at them. Her platinum-haired mother and car salesman father are no match for her sharp genius, and neither is the cruel headmistress Miss Trunchbull. And then the child prodigy discovers she has an extraordinary psychic power that can save her school and especially the lovely kindergarten teacher, Miss Honey.

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Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916. He was educated in England before going to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. With the outbreak of World War II, he became an RAF fighter pilot. He began writing for adults at the close of the war, with the encouragement of C. S. Forester. His first children's book, James and the Giant Peach, was published in 1961 and each of his subsequent books became bestsellers. He is still the best selling children's writer of all time. Quentin Blake is one of Britain's most successful illustrators. His first drawings were published in Punch when he was sixteen. He has illustrated nearly three hundred books and he was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. H has won many awards including the Whitbread Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal. He was awarded an OBE in 1988 and was the first ever Children's Laureate.

General Fields

  • : 9780141341248
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Puffin
  • : 0.239
  • : August 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : May 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake
  • : Paperback
  • : Quentin Blake
  • : en
  • : 823.914
  • : very good
  • : 232
  • : illustrations