Rank 90 of 100
Matilda
Synopsis
Matilda is a small genius in a family that thinks books are a kind of rudeness, and in a school run by a headmistress who throws children by the hair. Dahl gives her a kind teacher and, when fairness fails, a power that lets a child move the world the adults won’t.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1988
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Form
- Children's novel
- Genre
- Children's, Fantasy
- Audience
- Children
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Children's classic
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 240 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most read children's novels
- Kind
- Fiction
Themes
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