Meg's review
Matilda
by Roald Dahl
Meg's review
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Meg's review
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2006
recommended for: all children (and adults!)
I love this story! I love how intelligent Matilda is and how she uses that to overcome her surroundings. Roald Dahl has a brilliant way of telling stories that I just love! 02/03/2006
Quote: "School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the times comes to write the end-of-term reports. If I were a teacher I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents. "Your son Maximillian," I would write, "is a total wash-out. I hope you have a family business you can push him into when he leaves school because he sure as heck won't get a job anywhere else." Or if I were feeling lyrical that day, I might write, "It is a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing-organs in the sides of the abdomen. You daughter Vanessa, judging by what she's learnt this term, has no hearing organs at all." I think I might enjoy writing end-of-term report...more
Quote: "School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the times comes to write the end-of-term reports. If I were a teacher I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents. "Your son Maximillian," I would write, "is a total wash-out. I hope you have a family business you can push him into when he leaves school because he sure as heck won't get a job anywhere else." Or if I were feeling lyrical that day, I might write, "It is a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing-organs in the sides of the abdomen. You daughter Vanessa, judging by what she's learnt this term, has no hearing organs at all." I think I might enjoy writing end-of-term report...more
