Matilda

Audie Award Winner, Children's Titles for Ages 8-12, 2014"The Trunchbull" is no match for Matilda! Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it!. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress

Amazon Customer said Imperfectly Perfect. Okay, first off I don't know why it's taken me so long to read MATILDA. My only excuse? There are a lot of great middle grade books out there. However, every time I watch the Danny DeVito film version I promise myself I will read the book. So now I have. Did I enjoy it? Absolutely. I love Roald Dahl's whimsically fun voice. Is MATILDA perfect? Absolutely not. I know I am treading on hallowed ground with some people, and to those people I extend my heartfelt apologies, but for me MATILDA does have a few issues. The . M. T. Crenshaw said A classic that does not lose gas. Matilda is a modern tale that has many elements of the old folk European stories, with angelical people and evil people that you immediately love and hate, and air of defiance of the adults world that hooks up children. What separates Matilda from old fairy tales is that, despite the character being a female heroine, the story does not want to turn it into a princess or into a girlfriend or into a male character's attachment. Matilda is brilliant because she is an individual and knows what she wants. The books spea. Makes my daughter both want to read, AND use her Christmas Kindle My ten-year-old daughter reads very well, just not very much. The struggle is mostly in finding material and/or subject matter to engage her. She recently discovered Roald Dahl through her school librarian, and subsequently, she enthusiastically enjoyed James and the Giant Peach. When she asked for more by the same writer, Matilda became her first chapter-book download to her Kindle. She is loving it just as much and is in the e-book every night. She noses into it, asks me a million questions, and I can hear her la