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Genre/Form: | Children's stories Humorous fiction Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile literature Juvenile fiction Children's fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake; Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress) |
ISBN: | 0224025724 9780224025720 9780141365466 0141365463 9780141346342 0141346345 9780224083881 0224083880 9780141322667 0141322667 0140327592 9780140327595 0141311363 9780141311364 0141314567 9780141314563 9780141326221 0141326220 9780141323435 0141323434 |
OCLC Number: | 21077870 |
Awards: | Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 |
Description: | 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The reader of books -- Mr Wormwood, the great car dealer -- The hat and the superglue -- The ghost -- Arithmetic -- The platinum-blond man -- Miss Honey -- The Trunchbull -- The parents -- Throwing a hammer -- Bruce Bogtrotter and the cake -- Lavender -- The weekly test -- The first miracle -- The second miracle -- Miss Honey's cottage -- Miss Honey's story -- The names -- The practice -- The third miracle -- A new home. |
Responsibility: | Roald Dahl ; illustrations by Quentin Blake. |
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Abstract:
Matilda is an exceptional girl, but her parents think she is just a nuisance. When one day she is attacked by her odious headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, Matilda suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to avenge herself.
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"The undisputed master-storyteller ... Artful, funny, profoundly inventive and touched with the blessed knowledge of how to tap the basest in a child's nature and lead it towards the best" Daily Mail "Roald Dahl invented a new kind of literature for children full of the awful and gross - an exagerration of the everyday underpinned by serious observations about our best and worst inclinations" Waterstones Books Quarterly Read more...
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