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Matilda Wormwood, also known by her adoptive name Matilda Honey, is the title character of the bestselling 1988 children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl.She is a highly precocious five and a half (six and a half in the 1996 film) year old girl who has a passion for reading books.
Matilda is a 1988 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.It was published by Jonathan Cape.The story features Matilda Wormwood, a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in a school run by the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull.
This would later inspire Dahl to include a scene in Matilda where Matilda's friend Lavender puts a newt into Miss Trunchbull's water jug. [2] According to Dahl's widow Felicity's annotations in More About Boy the matron at St Peter's preparatory school in Weston-Super-Mare, which Dahl attended could have been another inspiration as she was a ...
The movie was based on Roald Dahl's classic book of the same name, and told the story of Matilda, a genius little girl who has special magical powers. Photo cred: Getty
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Roald Dahl's classic children's book is now a movie musical on Netflix. Here are all the key differences between the original novel, the 1996 film, stage adaptation, and 2022 movie musical.
Matilda is unable to reproduce her powers to Honey during a test. Honey invites Matilda to tea and reveals her past: her mother died when she was two, and her father Magnus invited his wife's stepsister, Trunchbull, to live with them and look after her, but Trunchbull abused her.
Matilda Doesn't Have a Brother. Justice for Michael “Mike” Wormwood! Matilda's older brother, who has a penchant for criminal activities like his father, Harry Wormwood, does not exist in ...