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  2. Matilda (1996 film) - Wikipedia

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    Matilda is a 1996 American fantasy comedy film co-produced and directed by Danny DeVito from a screenplay by Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, based on the 1988 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film stars Mara Wilson as the title character , with DeVito himself (who also served a dual role as the narrator), Rhea Perlman , Embeth ...

  3. The Key Differences Between Matilda Book, Movie Musical ... - AOL

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    In the musical (stage and movie), Matilda tells a story of an escapologist and acrobat who fell in love to the librarian, Mrs. Phelps. Mrs. Phelps is in the beginning Dahl's book, but has limited ...

  4. Matilda (novel) - Wikipedia

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    In a small Buckinghamshire village forty minutes by bus away from Reading and 8 miles from Aylesbury, Matilda Wormwood is born to Mr and Mrs Wormwood. She immediately shows awesome precocity, learning to speak at age one and to read at age three and a half, perusing all the children's books in the library by the age of four and three months and moving on to longer classics such as Great ...

  5. Miss Trunchbull - Wikipedia

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    In the 1996 film, Miss Trunchbull is a former shot putter, hammer, and javelin thrower, having competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics as a young adult; in the musical, the song "The Hammer" suggests she became the "English hammer-throwing champion" in 1969, while in the novel, she performed similar exploits, but the exact dates and events are not ...

  6. 30 best books for children, from Matilda to Alice in Wonderland

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    Clockwise from top-left: Matilda, Artemis Fowl, Peter Rabbit, The Hobbit (Puffin/Disney Press/Harper Collins/Warne) We all have cherished memories of the books we read and shared as children.

  7. Matilda Wormwood - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Netflix's "Matilda The Musical" Differs From the "Matilda ...

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    To scare Miss Trunchbull away from Crunchem Hall Primary School, Matilda uses her powers to pick up a piece of chalk and write a faux message from Miss Honey's father, Dr. Magnus Honey (who is the ...

  9. JumpStart Preschool - Wikipedia

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    JumpStart Preschool is a 1995 educational video game and third installment of the JumpStart franchise by Knowledge Adventure, after JumpStart Kindergarten (1994) and JumpStart 1st Grade (1995). It would later be re-released as JumpStart Preschool in August 1998 and superseded by a new title JumpStart Advanced Preschool in 2002.