For most kids, “The Trunchbull” is pure terror, but for Matilda, she's a sitting duck. Annotation Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
你肯定想象不出，像玛蒂尔达的父母那样庸俗、势利、卑鄙的家伙，怎么会生出玛蒂尔达这样可爱的小神童。她5岁时就把大多数经典作家的作品读完了！你也肯定想象不出，玛蒂尔达上学的学校里有一个怎样可怕的校长。她常常恶狠狠地说：“我一直弄不明白，小孩子为什么这样讨厌。他们是我生活中的祸害。他们像虫子，越早消灭越好。”不过你不必担心，神奇女孩玛蒂尔达自有对付的办法。
世界奇幻文学大师的经典作品，一本孩子们不能不看的趣味童话故事。这本《玛蒂尔达》通过小神童女孩玛蒂尔达的故事，把孩子们带入一个个奇幻而又快乐的美妙世界，相信这是一部让你拿起来就放不下的书，请随着玛蒂尔达一起感受吧！
Dahl's latest piece of madcap mayhem is a story filled with the elements that his fans cravesardonic humor, the evilest of villians, the most virtuous of heroines, and children who eventually defeat those big bad grown-ups. In this book, Matilda isn't just smart, she is ``extra-ordinary. . .sensitive and brilliant,'' reading Great Expectations as a four year old. Unfortunately, her TV-addict parents neither recognize nor appreciate their daughter's genius. Neglected Matilda finds mentors in librarian Mrs. Phelps and teacher Miss Honey, a woman as sweet as her name implies. Miss Honey, Matilda, and other students are tormented by the child-hating headmistress Trunchbull. Trunchbull has also cheated orphaned niece Miss Honey out of her rightful inheritance, leaving the teacher in extreme poverty. Having practiced revenge techniques on her father, Matilda now applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of Trunchbull and restore Miss Honey's financial security. If the conclusion is a bit too rapid, the transitions between Matilda's home and school life a bit choppy, and the writing style not as even as in some of Dahl's earlier titles, young readers won't mind. Dahl has written another fun and funny book with a child's perspective on an adult world. As usual, Blake's comical sketches are the perfect complement to the satirical humor. This may not be a teacher's or principal's first choice as a classroom read-aloud, but children will be waiting in line to read it.
--Heide Piehler, Shorewood Public Lib . , Wis.
