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Title: Matilda by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake ISBN: 0-14-130106-6 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.74 (253 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of His Best
Comment: Matilda is one of Roald Dahl's many great books and stories. Roald Dahl is such a creative writer that if i were to put down everything i like about him it would take up two journals, and that's just his children's books! So i will tell you my favorite. Well here they are.
First off, i love how much detail Roald Dahl puts in his writing. He doesn't just put: "Enter," said the Trunchbull. He writes a scentence like this. '"Enter," boomed the deep and dangerous voice of Miss Trunchbull.
Secondly, he puts so much livelyness into his work. Roald Dahl writes it like you are write there, at that time, with one of the characters, feeling the tension or happiness. It feels like you are experiencing it live.
My favorite character was the Trunchbull. I really enjoy the way she acts, it's like a cobra. She gets all sweet and quiet wen she becomes dangerous. Miss Trunchbull also shows no mercy what so ever. She'll hold a boy by his ears if he can't spell the word "what".
The plot of this story was entertaning and meaningful, (which didn't suprise me at all when i knew it was written by Roald Dahl). It was perfect, just what you don't expect with a little girl growing up in alittle family don't give a hoot about her or her education. Yet you want her to grow up going to good schools and you hate her parents because they don't care about her, and you do.
I like the way the events are written in Roald Dahl's writing. He doesn't just hammer the events ll down at once, he puts an event, then a breather, then an event, then a breather, and so on.
I have come to an end on the "preview" that i did on Matilda, because, as i said in the begining; it would take at least two journals. So if i were to give this book a rating, 1 being the best, 10 being the worst, i would give it a 1. And i hope as many people did and will enjoy Roald Dahl as i do.
Rating: 5
Summary: Book Review For Matilda
Comment: BOOK REVIEW FOR MATILDA
4/16/02 Arvin
I really liked the book Matilda because the author that wrote this book wrote lots and lots of details in the book that you could imagine the picture of what it would be like. Also I like this book because the girl in the story is very determined to study.
In this story, a little girl lives with two mean parents who are upsets with watching T.V including their son. But not Matilda! She wants to read and study. So when in the morning Matilda's mom goes out to play bingo and her dad goes to his business with her brother going to school, Matilda goes to the library to read.
One day Matilda goes to school and meets a wonderful teacher. Miss Honey! But not only does Matilda meet a nice teacher, but also Matilda finds out something about her that no one else can do. Magic! Matilda uses her ability on her real enemy The Trunchbull.
Through reading this book, I have learned a valuable lesson. The father of Matilda loved to earn money so he cheated on the people, and his cars were cheap and would break down very fast. That was lying. I learned not to lie because Matilda's father got in trouble and ran away. Another lesson I learned was to not give up! When Matilda meets the mean principle, Matilda didn't stop standing up for herself and did not give up.
Read this trilling story to walk through the adventures with Matilda! It will never get off your hands until you are finished reading this book. I loved this book and I think you will too!
Rating: 5
Summary: Once again another Entertaining Story for Kids by Roald Dahl
Comment: Matilda is a five and half year old genius. She is neglected by her parents, but still manages on her own to advance her education beyond her years by reading books. To punish her parents, for their lack of interest in her and for their mishandling of her upbringing, she decides to play some practical jokes on them (or especially on her father who is a crooked car salesman). As a parent of two girls who are 5 and 7 I was a little apprehensive about appearing to give approval to some of the things Matilda does, so I had to remind my girls that this was just a story, and they seemed to understood (or at least I hope they did.) As the story progresses Matilda goes to school for the first time, and has to do battle with the evil headmistress Miss Trunchbull, who is an ex-Olympic hammer thrower. She has been terrorizing the school for years by physically abusing all of the children who do not measure up to her standards. She especially hates the younger children. If they do anything wrong, she twirls them around by their hair as if they were a hammer and throws them out windows and across the schoolyard to help her stay in shape. The kids would go home and complain to their parents, but the stories about the headmistress would be so outrageous that none of the parents believed they could be true. The kids were left to deal with the headmistress on their own.
Matilda's first grade teacher Miss Honey is extremely nice. She is the first person to recognize Matilda's brilliance and wants to help Matilda reach her full potential, but Ms. Honey has problems of her own, and isn't strong enough to face the Trunchbull either. Since Matilda is being held back and is not allowed to use her brain to the fullest of it's potential, a force builds up inside of her. This gives Matilda some special Telekinetic abilities which she uses to come up with a plan to defeat the Trunchbull and improve her and Miss Honey's future. Roald Dahl tells another great tale that captures the kid's imagination and held them greatly entertained. Quentin Blake's illustrations once again add greatly to the story. Dahl touches upon some of his usual quirks that he hates, such television, T.V. dinners, and calculators. He also seems to be against advertisement's that sell something for $9.99 instead of $10.00. It was interesting to note that he does also mention several other children's writers in this story, and seems to give his own opinion on each. For instance he has Matilda comment that C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien are great writers, but he believes their writings are too serious. He believes children love to laugh, and that is why children's stories should have so much more humor in them. He also seems to be a big fan of Charles Dickens. My girls are now looking forward to seeing the movie that was just released a few years ago based on this book.
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Title: The Witches (Puffin Novels) by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake ISBN: 0141301104 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Novels) by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake ISBN: 0141301155 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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