Matilda is a 1988 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. It was published by Jonathan Cape. The story features Matilda Wormwood, a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in a school run by the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull.

Sep 28, 1988 · Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world...

Aug 16, 2007 · Adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and a Netflix film! Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress.

Matilda Wormwood is a gifted girl with unpleasant parents. From a young age she can speak like an adult. Since her parents don’t pay much attention to her, Matilda teaches herself to read. Before she has even been to elementary school, she …

Jul 29, 2009 · Reprint: Originally published: New York, NY : Penguin Books, c1988 "First Scholastic printing, September 1996"--Verso t.p Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security

Since Matilda is left alone every afternoon, she starts walking to the library every day. The librarian, Mrs. Phelps, points Matilda to English-language classics, like novels by Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, and Jane Austen. As Matilda devours books, she develops a moral compass.

"Matilda" is a children's book by Roald Dahl. It revolves around the story of a 5-year-old girl with advanced intellect and magical powers. The author begins the story with an introduction to Matilda and her family.

Matilda is a 1988 children's novel written by Roald Dahl. The book was, published by Jonathan Cape and illustrated by Quentin Blake and consisted of 232 pages. The book later adapted the film of the same name.

‘Matilda’ is the last long children’s book written by Roald Dahl in his lifetime. The book revolves around a precocious young girl named Matilda and the battles she faces against the bullies in her life. The book was published to near-universal acclaim in 1988 and won the Children’s Book Award soon after.

Matilda is a classic children’s novel by author Roald Dahl, published in 1988 by Jonathan Cape and adapted into a movie in 1996. The story is about a brilliant nine-year-old girl with extraordinary powers, who uses her genius to take revenge on her abusive parents, and later to fight back against the tyrannical principal of her school.