Matilda

by Roald Dahl

Paperback, 230 pages

Spanish language

Published May 7, 2005 by Alfaguara.

ISBN:: 978-987-04-0061-5
OCLC Number:: 606601685

(107 reviews)

Matilda is a book by British writer Roald Dahl. It was published in 1988 by Jonathan Cape in London, with 232 pages and illustrations by Quentin Blake. It was adapted as an audio reading by actress Kate Winslet; a 1996 feature film directed by Danny DeVito; a two-part BBC Radio 4 programme starring Lauren Mote as Matilda, Emerald O'Hanrahan as Miss Honey, Nichola McAuliffe as Miss Trunchbull and narrated by Lenny Henry; and a 2010 musical.In 2012 Matilda was ranked number 30 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily US audience. It was the first of four books by Dahl among the Top 100, more than any other writer. Time included Matilda in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. Worldwide sales have reached 17 million, and since 2016 sales have spiked to the extent that it …

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surya reviewed Matilda by Roald Dahl

Review of 'Matilda' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

The world has lots of Matilda's. Smart, funny, intelligent, kind, sweet and all things nice. But then the world also has MIss Trunchbulls. Egoistic, evil, self-centred, mean, nasty. Fortunately, with fun friends like Lavendar and kind guardian angels like Miss Honey, life never fails to be beautiful.

There is another school of thought, that says, in every living has the entire world within them. So...

Anyways, nothing beats a children's classic.

SaraLeon reviewed Matilda by Roald Dahl

Review of 'Matilda' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

To me it's half as magical as the movie. The end is quite abrupt. Maybe I would have liked it more as a child but since I grew up with the movie, it'll always be in my heart.
I quite liked how Miss Honey described the effect of being in an abusive situation though and think it's an important thing for children to hear.

The Gnome King reviewed Matilda by Roald Dahl

Review of 'Matilda' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This is probably Roald Dahl's weakest novel and yet it is still worthy of 4 stars, shows just how good a writer he was.

The problems with this book are too many bad people, the parents AND the head-teacher, if Dahl had focused on just the Trunchball then she could have had more scenes and greater impact on the story. In the end she just feels like a bully, she so could have been more demonic in my opinion....more like the head-teacher I had at school :-)

I might be a bad guy but at times I really wanted to give that goody goody Matilda a slap....and as for Miss Honey, in this day and age alarm bells would be ringing, taking a child out of school to your tiny house hidden away in the woods without informing the head-teacher or the child's parents? Far worse than throwing a girl …

Gossamerchild reviewed Matilda by Roald Dahl

Review of 'Matilda' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

I didn't think I could love this book more, but Kate Winslet made it the best audio book I've listened to in years. Now I don't think I can love Kate Winslet more. She did all the voices! And she was fantastic! And for the first time ever, I want to own an audio book. This was so, so, so good. I really can't say anything more other than-listen to it. Your ears and heart will be grateful.

Vedang Manerikar reviewed Matilda by Roald Dahl

Review of 'Matilda' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I read this book when I was a little kid and it started my love story with Road Dahl's books. Highly recommended reading, and a great gift to a little kid.