Advantages: Enjoyable fantasy, one of Dahl's best Disadvantages: Over the top characters (but it's fantasy, after all!)
...her uninterested parents.
Needless to say, Matilda is thrilled when the time comes for her to start school - even more so when her teacher turns out to be the kind and beautiful Miss Honey, who is, of course, astounded and delighted to discover the precocious accomplishments of her new pupil. However, the name of the school - Crunchem Hall - should have served as a warning, and indeed it turns out that school life is blighted for Matilda and the ...
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Advantages: unleashes your imagination and feelings, brill for young and old Disadvantages: none
...parents basically seem to find Matilda an inconvenience who is left to her own devices. She has a particular talent for reading, way beyond her age and spends time at the library reading great classics.
She then goes to school where Miss Trunchbull the headmistress is a very powerful woman and ex hammer throwing champion who imposes horrible punishments like swinging children around by their pigtails or ears. Matildas only saving grace is her ...
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Advantages: Interesting, Good Plot Disadvantages: Trunchbull
The story opens with Matilda, a special girl who is very intelligent and has powers. She hates watching boring television. What she prefers is to sneak off to the library and read many boring books which she does not find boring! Her family hates her, and she hates her family. She believes that they are boring, as well as self-obsessed and crooked. After some smart tricks, she is shipped off to boring school. She makes friends with children, and with ...
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Advantages: Magical, encourages reading and learning, gentle morals Disadvantages: A tad old-fashioned, geared more towards girls than most Dahl books
...still enjoyable even now. Matilda Wormwood is an extremely bright five year-old who reads Dickens and can work out huge sums as fast as a calculator. But her parents are blind to her intelligence, seeing her as nothing more than an irritating distraction from their television obsession. When she starts school, despite the terrifying headmistress spreading fear and tyranny through the children, she finally finds someone to appreciate and stimulate ...
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Advantages: Good characters. Disadvantages: The parents Are mean!!!
...COVER
The book cover has Matilda and roald Dahl on it and loads of books also the book cover is yellow or pink you can get ether one but it don't matter there the same story..
It also says who it was illustrated by. It was published in 1988.
MISS AGATHA TRUNCHBALL
She is so mean and I can't believe she is a headmistress.
She is a cruel bully and headmistress of Crunchem hall primary school.
She presented England at the Olympics and ...
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Advantages: A great book for everyone Disadvantages: Even the parents get addicted!
...life similar to Matilda's. Here Matilda meets a mean principal Miss Trunchball whom treats everyone in an evil and horrible way. Along the story Matilda uses powers to delete the enemies and be friends with the good.
The best part of this book for me is the parts when she uses her powers. When she used her powers to write on the blackboard to Miss Trunchball, You can actually sense the tension between her and the rest of the class, what a scene.
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Advantages: A lovely story, that you can't help but become involed in... Disadvantages: Not appreciated enough.
Matilda was easily my favourite book as a child - I must have read it 50 times, and never once did I get bored.
Matilda is a story of exceptional talent, and features Dahl's usual mixture of frightening, highly imaginative, and downright risqué content, guaranteed to keep his readers glued to the pages until the very last word.
The story features the unlucky Matilda, who born to two awful parents (her dad is a highly dubious car salesman), and ...
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Advantages: Magical, funny, a pleasure to read Disadvantages: Younger children might get a bit scared at some points
This is a book that I really enjoyed reading as a child. And now I've got a daughter of my own, I'm looking forward to reading it again, with her by my side.
Roald Dahl has a way of encorporating magic into his writing so that his books are enjoyed by children and adults together. The characters come to life, even if the situation is a fantasy, it seems real to the readers. If you are a parent, considering to buy this for your child, or if you're ...
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Advantages: this book lets loose the imagination of all children making reading fun Disadvantages: none after reading this book you think anything is possible
...doubt is a genius. Matilda is brought up in a home where no one notices her, until she goes to school and meets Miss Honey her teacher. The school is run by a scary headmistress. Through anger and frustration towards her parents and headmistress, Matilda realises she has powers, which is when the book really starts. Matilda is able to make things move, such as a flying newt onto the headmistress's chest. You will have to read the book to find out ...
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Advantages: Its a very easy book to read Disadvantages: It doesn't last very long
...about a little girl called Matilda who loves to read, her brother isn't very nice to her and neither is her parents.
She loves going to school ans gets on really well with her teacher, Miss Honey, but not very well with Ms Trucnhbull, the nasty head teacher.
Matilda learns that she can use the hate she has for her parents and Trunchbull my turning her nergy into physcial enegy - and start to move stuff with her stare.
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Matilda is a lovely book the characters are interesting with their own destinctive charactoristics. It is very well writen and beautifully illustrated.
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Advantages: A good laugh sometimes Disadvantages: Sometimes the drawings in my opinion are not that good
I think Roald Dahl is a good writer, i don't know why but his books are so good. I have read many of his books including Madtilda, The twits, Charlie and the chocolate factory, Danny the champion of the world. My favouate out of these is proberly Charlie and Chocolate factory. Many of his books have been made into films, like Matilda, Charlie and the chocolate factory, the witches. He has written loads of books which are mostly illistrated by Quentain ...
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...author of all time. Matilda is about a smart little girl who
has powers and can read so well but unfortunately her parents are more interested in
tv and money to even give a care. My second fave book by this wonderful author is Boy
because it is the first part of a biography in his huge life. The best part is easily the story
about when he puts a rat inside a sweet jar at a sweet jar. The second part of this entralling
biography is also brilliant ...
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Advantages: Every Childs Dream! To Punish The Adults In Their Lives!! Disadvantages: What can I say? There are none, Roald Dahl at his finest
...and extremely bright child named Matilda Wormwood, her mother (a platinum blonde woman addicted to daytime soaps and bingo) and father (a crooked car dealer) have very little time for her, prefering to lavish their attention on her older brother.
Should anything go wrong in the wormwood house, Matilda will always get the blame, now no child minds being blamed for something they actually do (no matter how big the tamtrum they throw) but find it ...
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...realism and real life.
His story, Matilda is a classic. Matilda has an awful life. Her parents ignore her, despite her obvious intelligence, her brother bullies her, and when she goes to school, her headteacher is a tyrant who locks children away and throws them around the playground.
Her story takes a very big twist. Her teacher, Miss HOney is an exceptionally kind woman who helps her to learn, and eventually notices her amazing talent. Anyone ...
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