The beloved story by Roald Dahl, renewed for a whole new generation of readers with an exciting new interior design and cover image. These books offered Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: you are not alone. Matilda is a brilliant child with magical thinking. However, her parents have decided that she is just a nuisance wasting too much time reading and telling stories. And the headmistress, Mrs. Trunchbull, is a terrible bully who believes that children are bad and awful and should be locked away. Now it is time for Matilda to find the strength to change her story and show them how extraordinary children can be... The text in this edition of Matilda was updated in 2022 for new independent readers.