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DISCLAIMER- All opinions on books I’ve read and reviewed are my own, and are with no intention to offend anyone. I really liked this book for all the important themes it explored and the way everything was portrayed.

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Early in the book, we are treated to some funny examples of Matilda getting her own back on her parents, like gluing her father's hat to his head, and sticking a parrot in the chimney to make them think there’s a burglar or ghost around. A second musical version of the novel, Matilda the Musical, written by Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin and commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, premiered in November 2010. We see how books can comfort the lonely, can inspire and empower, and there’s nothing I love more than the idea that money is not an obstacle to reading when you have a library card.Soon, she puts her very special talents to work to get the better of Miss Trunchbull and the other unpleasant grown-ups around her - as well as to help warm-hearted class teacher Miss Honey. Dahl went on to create some of the best-loved children's stories of the 20th century, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and James and the Giant Peach. The short story The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl, released in 1966, may have been a precursor to Matilda. If your end goal is to work towards writing a book review, then you might want to try this video on Twinkl’s YouTube channel. Her father in particular is characterised as a liar and a cheat, due to his dodgy used-car business.

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You can see the acts/scenes play out with definitive beginnings and ends, as if he wrote a handful of short stories and plugged them into one book.Your parents would be pleased to hear they made a fabulous television adaptation of Cranford, though I doubt they're the kind of people who can appreciate the talents of Judi Dench as Miss Matty Jenkyns. It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. Reread this as an adult with the above perspective and you will find a chilling tale of a child trying to create something better for herself than the toxic circumstances she was born into. Scary glimpse into my mind, I conciously pronounce it both ways so I'll have a percentage chance of getting it right. It was the editor's idea to make Matilda an innocent child who loved books, with her powers manifesting as a result of abuse she endured.

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Dahl's initial draft for the novel portrayed Matilda as a wicked, irrational girl, her name being drawn from Hilaire Belloc's poem "Matilda Who Told Such Dreadful Lies", who tortured her innocent parents and used her psychokinetic powers to help an unethical teacher win money at horse racing. While I personally love a book about a child prodigy (especially in the area of telekinesis), I had a different reaction to this book while rereading it as an adult. He'd have hated tuna fish sandwiches and that disgusting '80s fad of "a train going through a tunnel", fo' sho. It was here that Roald Dahl began to tell his five children made-up bedtime stories and from those that he began to consider writing stories for children.One of Miss Trunchbull's punishments is to force an overweight child, Bruce Bogtrotter, to eat an enormous chocolate cake, which makes him so full that he cannot move. My favorite thing about this story was the mention of other books, especially Nicholas Nickleby and how Mrs. Now it's all about princesses and pretty pretty rainbow ponies, and if one of them gets a cold, it's a fucking big deal. Because of its themes of bullying and mistreatment, it’s recommended that adults first make sure that their children are comfortable with darker themes.