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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 17, 2012
Pros: A hard-warming tale with excellent characterisation and humour
Cons: None
Summary: There are some children's novels which are destined to become classics - set to take their place on the bookshelf of supremacy alongside the likes of The Railway Children, The Secret Garden and Black Beauty - and Matilda, by the esteemed author Roald ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 12, 2007
Pros: A harmonious balance of all hallmarks of Dahl's children's writing
Cons: A little too much coverage of Trunchbull's punishments.
Summary: All of Roald Dahl's key works contain common features that make his books special and unique. Apart from gripping tales of the unexpected, the key reason for their appeal is in the treatment of the baddies in the story. However, Dahl counters this ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 29, 2004
Pros: Very Exciting and fun to read. Extreamly well written.
Cons: none that I can think of.
Summary: This book contains some of the best writing that any author can produce and certainly the most from Roald Dahl. There are plenty of themes that keep the book interesting to read like sadness, kindness, anger, pain, mystery, excitement, knowledge, family, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 4, 2004
Pros: Delightful read, Funny, Good Characters and Description
Cons: None
Summary: If any writer can capture a childs mind and entrance them into the wonders of literature, then it must be the one and only Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl was of Norweigan background but spent his life in England. He was sent to a proper English boarding school ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 5, 2002
Pros: Wonderful and cute story written with a brilliance that few find in stories today.
Cons: American children may need help understanding a few British words.
Summary: I can remember when I was about the age of 11 or so, I received this book from my parents as a gift. From the beginning I was quite intrigued by the bright yellow cover with a small cartoon drawn girl perched gently upon a huge stack of books more then ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 11, 2001
Pros: a great little novel
Cons: not a thing
Summary: Roald Dahl has a talent that's for sure. His book "MAtilda" was all the craze when I was in fourth grade, which was some years ago now. But I picked up the book off of the shelf the other day and I looked through it and started to remember how much I ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 31, 2001
Pros: It is a short read
Cons: it is a really interesting book
Summary: The book Matilda is about a little girl who name is Matilda. She lives with her parents and her brother. In this story Matilda is always yelled at by her parents for doing something wrong when she is doing nothing wrong. Like when she is reading a ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 29, 2000
Pros: great book
Cons: none
Summary: Matilda is yet another exciting and interesting story from the amazing author - Roald Dahl.
Join Matilda and travel with her in the amazing adventures of what she gets up to and how she saves her class teacher, Miss. Honey.
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 12, 2000
Pros: Hilariously horrible villains, and Matilda, the child every parent should be lucky enough to have.
Cons: If you're not the perfect parent, this book might inspire your children to seek retribution.
Summary: They say the truth is hard to take. Perhaps that's why I cringe when children's literature presents adults as bumbling idiots who make life a misery for the prepubescent protagonists. "Never underestimate the mind of a child," I always say. Children can ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 2, 2000
Pros: Fun and interesting
Cons: none
Summary: Now that my daughter is about to enter Kindergarten, I feel like it's time to introduce her to the wonderful world of chapter books. I have read to her every night since she was a year old, so this is just a natural progression in our bedtime ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 3, 2000
Pros: vivid descriptions, fast paced, creative
Cons: ~none~
Summary: Matilda, a chapter book written by Roald Dahl is an amusing story of a little girls revenge on her parents when they do dreadful things to her. Now, the book shown here is from the movie that was recently released, so a few things are different, but ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 23, 2000
Pros: Great plotline, characters, writing style, appropriate for anyone, funny
Cons: None that I can think of
Summary: Ahhhhh Matilda. Don't you ever get that urge to curl up on a cold winter day by a nice fire with a Roald Dahl book? If you think YOU had a troubled childhood (which most of us are guilty of), please, do me a favor and read this book. Yes, it's fiction ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 25, 2000
Pros: Matilda
Cons: nothing
Summary: The author Roald Dahl is a genious. Even though this edition of the book is from more of the movie than the original book, it is nevertheless great. It is heart warming and encouraging. Matilda, a little child that has idiots for parents, is smart, ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 17, 1999
Pros: Suitable for all ages, Very good detail
Cons: Doesn't have a sequel
Summary: Matilda is the best book I have ever read. Even though its not a true story, it has such a heartwarming story line that made me want to cry.
Matilda has awful hard trouble with her parents, but that just goes to show you, if you persevere and ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 5, 1999
Pros: Wonderful story, Raold Dahl is a genius.
Cons: It makes almost all adults out to be fools.
Summary: I have loved everything I have ever read by Roald Dahl, but Matilda takes the cake.
There is not a single reader I have met who hasn't fallen in love with this little girl. Children love the tale of the child who outsmarts all of the adults ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 15, 2007
Pros: interesting read
Cons: none
Summary: MATILDA is a book about a perfect little girl where every parents would love to have as their own. But unfortunately for Matilda, her parents doesn't really care much of her pressence in the family. That, however, didn't stop her from nurturing herself ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 13, 2000
Pros: Kids are the winners in Roald Dahl's books
Cons: American kids may need help w/ British dialogue
Summary: Roald Dahl is one of my favorite children's authors. His writing is diverse yet all of it stems from his own background in an English boarding school where the teachers ruled with a ruler and children always seemed to lose. All of Roald Dahl's books ... read more
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Jan 2, 2004
Pros: Big book but you cannot put it down.
Cons: Nothing is wrong.
Summary: A review by my sister(10): Matilda is a book for people who have a sence of humor, but most of all if you can understand scarcasim. I thought this for me was really good because I could picture myself in the book as being Matilda which was a great
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