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were safe in her bank and the property she lived in as a child was left to her. Trilby becomes the new headmaster, proving himself to be capable and good-natured, overwhelmingly improving the school's atmosphere and curriculum, and quickly moving Matilda into the top-form class with the 11-year-olds. Rather to Matilda's relief, she soon is no longer capable of telekinesis. Miss Honey theorises this is because Matilda is using her brainpower on a more challenging curriculum, leaving less of her brain's enormous energy free.
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in poverty in a derelict farm cottage, and her salary is being paid into Miss Trunchbull's bank account for the first 10 years of her teaching career while she is restricted to £1 per week in pocket money. Preparing to avenge Miss Honey, Matilda practices her telekinesis at home. Later, during a sadistic lesson that Miss Trunchbull is teaching, Matilda telekinetically raises a piece of chalk to the blackboard and begins to use it to write, posing as
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Matilda quickly develops a particularly strong bond with Miss Honey and watches as Trunchbull terrorises her students with deliberately creative, over-the-top punishments to prevent parents from believing them, such as throwing them in a dark closet dubbed "The Chokey", which is lined with nails and
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Matilda reveals her new powers to Miss Honey, who confides that after her wealthy father, Dr Magnus Honey, suspiciously died, she was raised by an abusive aunt, revealed to be Miss Trunchbull. Trunchbull appears, among other misdeeds, to be withholding her niece's inheritance; Miss Honey has to live
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with the girl over the playground fence. A boy called Bruce Bogtrotter is later caught by the cook stealing a piece of Miss Trunchbull's cake; the headmistress makes him attempt to eat an 18-inch (46 cm) wide cake in front of the assembly, then smashes the platter over his head in rage after he
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The next day, the school's deputy headmaster, Mr Trilby, visits Trunchbull's house and finds it empty, except for signs of Trunchbull's hasty exit. She is never seen again, and the next day Miss Honey receives a letter from a local solicitor's office, telling her that her father's lifetime savings
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had been instrumental in reshaping the story. 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. Roxburgh also suggested various changes to the main characters that were incorporated into the finished novel. As
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At the age of five and a half, Matilda enters school and befriends her polite and compassionate teacher Jennifer Honey, who is astonished by her intellectual abilities. Miss Honey tries to move Matilda into a higher class, but the tyrannical headmistress,
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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. The cook had caught him stealing a piece of cake from the kitchen. In
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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 outsells Dahl's other works. In 2023, the novel was ranked by
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in Buckinghamshire. The library in Great Missenden was the inspiration for Mrs Phelps's library, where Matilda devours classic literature by the age of four and three months. On Matilda's love of reading books,
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of Magnus Honey. Addressing Miss Trunchbull using her first name (Agatha), "Magnus" demands that Miss Trunchbull hand over Miss Honey's house and wages and leave the school, causing Miss Trunchbull to faint.
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stated that her father’s novel was, in part, about his love for books: "I think that there was a deep genuine fear within his heart that books were going to go away and he wanted to write about it."
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Matilda continues to visit Miss Honey at her house regularly, returning home one day to find her parents and her older brother Michael hastily packing to leave for
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Dahl decided to take the manuscript to a different publishers the two had a falling out. The edited version of the manuscript was published by
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imagined what Matilda might be doing as a grown-up woman today. He drew images of her undertaking three possible roles: an explorer, an
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Despite Roald Dahl having enjoined his publishers not to "so much as change a single comma in one of my books", in February 2023
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as an animated series, which will be part of an "animated event series" along with other Roald Dahl books such as
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Dahl's initial draft for the novel portrayed Matilda as a wicked, irrational girl, her name being drawn from
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led with five of the Top 100. The four extant Harry Potter novels all made the Top 25. The Dahl novels were
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one of the recipes is based on that cake. Bruce is a more sympathetic variation of Augustus Gloop (from
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in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. In 2012, Matilda Wormwood appeared on a
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broken glass. When Matilda's friend Lavender plays a practical joke on Trunchbull by placing a
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performing the song "Naughty" at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., December 2015
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Cumming, Ed; Buchanan, Abigail; Holl-Allen, Genevieve; Smith, Benedict (24 February 2023).
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Celebrating 30 years of the book's publication in October 2018, original illustrator
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in the chimney to simulate a burglar or ghost, and bleaching her father's hair with
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was ranked number 30 among all-time best children's novels in a survey published by
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in her jug of water, Matilda is blamed; in anger, she uses an unexpected power of
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The book has been adapted in various media, including audio readings by actresses
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as Miss Trunchbull and had mixed reviews. A second musical version of the novel,
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was ranked number 30 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by
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at no. 10 in their poll of "The 100 greatest children's books of all time".
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survey of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time. In 2012,
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Miss Trunchbull later confronts a girl called Amanda Thripp for wearing
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poll of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time. In 2012
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broadcast a two-part adaptation by Charlotte Jones of the novel with
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in New York, and around the world. A film adaptation of the musical,
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produced a musical version, adapted by Rony Robinson with music by
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The book has been recorded as an audiobook three times. In 2004,
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First of two pages. Archived 2 September 2014 by the publisher.
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in the US. One critic called it "the best British musical since
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to tip the glass of water containing the newt onto Trunchbull.
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by Roald Dahl, released in 1966, may have been a precursor to
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is born to Mr and Mrs Wormwood. She immediately shows awesome
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Honeycombe-Foster, Matt; Blanchard, Jack (21 February 2023).
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reuses information from other sources but does not name them.
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Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl
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The year after the book was published, it received the 1989
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Waltzing Matilda: Dahl's classic dances on to the stage
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as Miss Trunchbull, Emerald O'Hanrahan as Miss Honey,
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has a score of 90% based on reviews from 21 critics.
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Storyteller: The authorized biography of Roald Dahl
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It stars Alisha Weir as Matilda and 8: 2060: 2058: 39: 1909: 1907: 3313: 3299: 3291: 3077: 3063: 3055: 2134: 2120: 2112: 1796: 1794: 45: 38: 2465:The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl 1311:"7 Things You May Not Know About Matilda" 1202: 1200: 296:her father's hat to his head, sticking a 3195:Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase 970: 968: 873: 2794:Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 2762:The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling 2591:Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 964: 264:village forty minutes by bus away from 1900:from the original on 28 February 2023. 1855: 1853: 1851: 1849: 645:narrated the unabridged audiobook for 3191:by Daisy Corning Stone Spedder (1998) 2340:Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen 2043:from the original on 27 February 2023 1994:from the original on 24 February 2023 1982:Rackham, Annabel (24 February 2023). 1963:from the original on 24 February 2023 1932:from the original on 28 February 2023 1860:Blair, Elizabeth (24 February 2023). 1563:Maguire, Gregory (22 November 2013). 1207:Ferguson, Donna (15 September 2018). 897:Connections to other Roald Dahl books 677:narrated an unabridged recording for 7: 3197:by Bruce Whatley and R. 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Mr. Wormwood
Mathilda (novella)

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Quentin Blake
Children's literature
fantasy
Jonathan Cape
children's novel
Roald Dahl
Jonathan Cape
Matilda Wormwood
Miss Trunchbull
Joely Richardson
Miriam Margolyes
Kate Winslet
Matilda
Danny DeVito
BBC Radio 4
Matilda the Musical
West End
Broadway
Matilda the Musical
The Big Read
BBC
School Library Journal
Time
Royal Mail
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