"Matilda!" she barked."Stand up." "Who, me?" Matilda said."What have I done?" "Stand upyou disgusting little cockroach!" "I haven't done anything,Miss Trunchbull ...

We all have cherished memories of the books we read and shared as children ... thoroughly imbued into the popular imagination. 14. Matilda by Roald Dahl (1988) I’m willing to bet that after ...

Could you love anyone who did not love Matilda? The book and the eponymous heroine, a bookworm whose frustration and anger at her neglectful family and bullying headmistress manifest as ...

I think Matilda showed me reading has the power to heal; and that sharing books, whether in my parents always giving in to my insatiable appetite for more novels, or in passing those I’d read on ...