This collectable hardcover edition features a beautiful cover and deluxe packaging, including blue interior text and illustrations!
The classic story from Roald Dahl, about an exceptional young girl with extraordinary powers. Adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and a Netflix film!
From the bestselling author of
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and
The BFG comes the story of girl with extraordinary abilities. Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it!
"Matilda will surely go straight to children's hearts." —The New York Times Book Review
Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
Matilda,
The BFG and many more brilliant stories. He remains the World’s No.1 storyteller.
Sir Quentin Blake, the first-ever Children’s Laureate of the United Kingdom, has illustrated nearly 300 books, including most of Roald Dahl’s children’s books. He lives in London.
