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interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(roman)" title="Matilda (roman) – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Matilda (roman)" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE" title="মাতিলদা – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মাতিলদা" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(novel%C2%B7la)" title="Matilda (novel·la) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Matilda (novel·la)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matylda_(rom%C3%A1n)" title="Matylda (román) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Matylda (román)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(llyfr)" title="Matilda (llyfr) – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Matilda (llyfr)" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(Roman)" title="Matilda (Roman) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Matilda (Roman)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda" title="Matilda – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Matilda" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(romano)" title="Matilda (romano) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Matilda (romano)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda" title="Matilda – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Matilda" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A7_(%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86)" title="ماتیلدا (رمان) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ماتیلدا (رمان)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(roman)" title="Matilda (roman) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Matilda (roman)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda" title="Matilda – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Matilda" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(novela)" title="Matilda (novela) – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Matilda (novela)" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%ED%8B%B8%EB%8B%A4_(%EC%86%8C%EC%84%A4)" title="마틸다 (소설) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="마틸다 (소설)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%A9%D5%AB%D5%AC%D5%A4%D5%A1_(%D5%A3%D5%AB%D6%80%D6%84)" title="Մաթիլդա (գիրք) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մաթիլդա (գիրք)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BE_(%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AC)" title="मटिल्डा (किताब) – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="मटिल्डा (किताब)" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilde_(romanzo)" title="Matilde (romanzo) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Matilde (romanzo)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%94_(%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8)" title="מטילדה (ספר) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מטילדה (ספר)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0" title="Матилда – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Матилда" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B5%BD%E0%B4%A1_(%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%BD)" title="മെറ്റിൽഡ (നോവൽ) – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="മെറ്റിൽഡ (നോവൽ)" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(boek)" title="Matilda (boek) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Matilda (boek)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%81%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80%E3%81%AF%E5%B0%8F%E3%81%95%E3%81%AA%E5%A4%A7%E5%A4%A9%E6%89%8D" title="マチルダは小さな大天才 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="マチルダは小さな大天才" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(bok)" title="Matilda (bok) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Matilda (bok)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda" title="Matilda – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Matilda" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4%D0%B0_(%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0)" title="Матильда (книга) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Матильда (книга)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a 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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">1988 children's novel by Roald Dahl</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Mathilda_(novella)" title="Mathilda (novella)">Mathilda (novella)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%; font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">Matilda <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Matilda&rft.author=%5B%5BRoald+Dahl%5D%5D&rft.pub=%5B%5BJonathan+Cape%5D%5D&rft.place=United+Kingdom&rft.pages=240"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:MatildaCover.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/MatildaCover.jpg/220px-MatildaCover.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="329" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/MatildaCover.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="374" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">First UK edition</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Illustrator</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Quentin_Blake" title="Quentin Blake">Quentin Blake</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">Children's literature</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Published</th><td class="infobox-data">1 October 1988</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Cape" title="Jonathan Cape">Jonathan Cape</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">240</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Matilda</b></i> is a 1988 <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_book" class="mw-redirect" title="Children's book">children's novel</a> by British author <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a>. It was published by <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Cape" title="Jonathan Cape">Jonathan Cape</a>. The story features <a href="/wiki/Matilda_Wormwood" title="Matilda Wormwood">Matilda Wormwood</a>, a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in a school run by the tyrannical headmistress <a href="/wiki/Miss_Trunchbull" title="Miss Trunchbull">Miss Trunchbull</a>. </p><p>The book has been adapted in various media, including audio readings by actresses <a href="/wiki/Joely_Richardson" title="Joely Richardson">Joely Richardson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Miriam_Margolyes" title="Miriam Margolyes">Miriam Margolyes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kate_Winslet" title="Kate Winslet">Kate Winslet</a>; a 1996 feature film <i><a href="/wiki/Matilda_(1996_film)" title="Matilda (1996 film)">Matilda</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Danny_DeVito" title="Danny DeVito">Danny DeVito</a>; a two-part <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> programme; and a 2010–2011 musical <i><a href="/wiki/Matilda_the_Musical" title="Matilda the Musical">Matilda the Musical</a></i> which ran on the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> in London, <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> in New York, and around the world. A film adaptation of the musical, <i><a href="/wiki/Matilda_the_Musical_(film)" title="Matilda the Musical (film)">Matilda the Musical</a></i>, was released in 2022. </p><p>In 2003, <i>Matilda</i> was listed at number 74 in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Read" title="The Big Read">The Big Read</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> survey of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC200_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC200-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, <i>Matilda</i> was ranked number 30 among all-time best children's novels in a survey published by <i><a href="/wiki/School_Library_Journal" title="School Library Journal">School Library Journal</a></i>, a US monthly.<sup id="cite_ref-SLJChapter2012_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SLJChapter2012-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine named <i>Matilda</i> in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, Matilda Wormwood appeared on a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Mail" title="Royal Mail">Royal Mail</a> <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_commemorative_stamps_2010%E2%80%932019#2012" title="United Kingdom commemorative stamps 2010–2019">commemorative postage stamp</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_(novel)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a small <a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire" title="Buckinghamshire">Buckinghamshire</a> village forty minutes by bus away from <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a> and 8 miles from <a href="/wiki/Aylesbury" title="Aylesbury">Aylesbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matilda_Wormwood" title="Matilda Wormwood">Matilda Wormwood</a> is born to Mr and Mrs Wormwood. She immediately shows awesome <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/precocious" class="extiw" title="wikt:precocious">precocity</a>, 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 <i><a href="/wiki/Great_Expectations" title="Great Expectations">Great Expectations</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Jane_Eyre" title="Jane Eyre">Jane Eyre</a></i>. However, her parents emotionally abuse her and completely refuse to acknowledge her abilities; to keep from getting frustrated, Matilda finds herself forced to pull pranks on them, such as <a href="/wiki/Superglue" class="mw-redirect" title="Superglue">gluing</a> her father's hat to his head, sticking a <a href="/wiki/Parrot" title="Parrot">parrot</a> in the chimney to simulate a burglar or ghost, and bleaching her father's hair with <a href="/wiki/Peroxide" title="Peroxide">peroxide</a>. </p><p>At the age of five and a half, Matilda enters school and befriends her polite and compassionate teacher Jennifer Honey, who is astonished by her intellectual abilities. Miss Honey tries to move Matilda into a higher class, but the tyrannical headmistress, <a href="/wiki/Miss_Trunchbull" title="Miss Trunchbull">Miss Agatha Trunchbull</a>, refuses. Miss Honey also tries to talk to Mr and Mrs Wormwood about their daughter's intelligence, but they ignore her, with the mother contending "brainy-ness" is an undesirable trait in a little girl. </p><p>Miss Trunchbull later confronts a girl called Amanda Thripp for wearing <a href="/wiki/Pigtails" class="mw-redirect" title="Pigtails">pigtails</a> (the headmistress repeatedly displays a dislike of long hair throughout the book) and does a <a href="/wiki/Hammer_throw" title="Hammer throw">hammer throw</a> with the girl over the playground fence. A boy called Bruce Bogtrotter is later caught by the cook stealing a piece of Miss Trunchbull's cake; the headmistress makes him attempt to eat an 18-inch (46 cm) wide cake in front of the assembly, then smashes the platter over his head in rage after he unexpectedly succeeds. </p><p>Matilda quickly develops a particularly strong bond with Miss Honey and watches as Trunchbull terrorises her students with deliberately creative, over-the-top punishments to prevent parents from believing them, such as throwing them in a dark closet dubbed "The Chokey", which is lined with nails and broken glass. When Matilda's friend Lavender plays a practical joke on Trunchbull by placing a <a href="/wiki/Newt" title="Newt">newt</a> in her jug of water, Matilda is blamed; in anger, she uses an unexpected power of <a href="/wiki/Psychokinesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychokinesis">telekinesis</a> to tip the glass of water containing the newt onto Trunchbull. </p><p>Matilda reveals her new powers to Miss Honey, who confides that after her wealthy father, Dr Magnus Honey, suspiciously died, she was raised by an abusive aunt, revealed to be Miss Trunchbull. Trunchbull appears, among other misdeeds, to be withholding her niece's inheritance; Miss Honey has to live in poverty in a derelict farm cottage, and her salary is being paid into Miss Trunchbull's bank account for the first 10 years of her teaching career while she is restricted to £1 per week in pocket money. Preparing to avenge Miss Honey, Matilda practises her telekinesis at home. Later, during a sadistic lesson that Miss Trunchbull is teaching, Matilda telekinetically raises a piece of chalk to the blackboard and begins to use it to write, posing as <a href="/wiki/Poltergeist" title="Poltergeist">the spirit</a> of Magnus Honey. Addressing Miss Trunchbull using her first name (Agatha), "Magnus" demands that Miss Trunchbull hand over Miss Honey's house and wages and leave the school, causing Miss Trunchbull to faint. </p><p>The next day, the school's deputy headmaster, Mr Trilby, visits Trunchbull's house and finds it empty, except for signs of Trunchbull's hasty exit. She is never seen again, and the next day Miss Honey receives a letter from a local solicitor's office, telling her that her father's lifetime savings were safe in her bank and the property she lived in as a child was left to her. Trilby becomes the new headmaster, proving himself to be capable and good-natured, overwhelmingly improving the school's atmosphere and curriculum, and quickly moving Matilda into the top-form class with the 11-year-olds. Rather to Matilda's relief, she soon is no longer capable of telekinesis. Miss Honey theorises this is because Matilda is using her brainpower on a more challenging curriculum, leaving less of her brain's enormous energy free. </p><p>Matilda continues to visit Miss Honey at her house regularly, returning home one day to find her parents and her older brother Michael hastily packing to leave for <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>. Miss Honey explains this is because the police found out Mr Wormwood has been selling stolen cars. Matilda asks permission to live with Miss Honey, to which her parents rather distractedly agree. Matilda and Miss Honey find their happy ending, as the Wormwoods drive away, never to be seen again. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing_the_novel">Writing the novel</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_(novel)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Writing the novel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dahl's initial draft for the novel portrayed Matilda as a wicked, irrational girl, her name being drawn from <a href="/wiki/Hilaire_Belloc" title="Hilaire Belloc">Hilaire Belloc</a>'s poem "Matilda Who Told Such Dreadful Lies", who tortured her innocent parents and used her psychokinetic powers to help an unethical teacher win money at <a href="/wiki/Horse_racing" title="Horse racing">horse racing</a>. Dahl's biographer Jeremy Treglown went through the author's documents, including the drafts for the novel, and noted that the American editor Stephen Roxburgh at <a href="/wiki/Farrar,_Straus_and_Giroux" title="Farrar, Straus and Giroux">Farrar, Straus and Giroux</a> had been instrumental in reshaping the story. It was Roxburgh's idea to make Matilda an innocent child who loved books, with her powers manifesting as a result of abuse she endured. Roxburgh also suggested various changes to the main characters that were incorporated into the finished novel. As Dahl decided to take the manuscript to a different publishers, the two had a falling out. The edited version of the manuscript was published by <a href="/wiki/Puffin_Books" title="Puffin Books">Puffin Books</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dahl explained in an interview that he "got it wrong" at first and that the book took over a year to rewrite, though he failed to mention Roxburgh's input.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_(novel)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The year after the book was published, it received the 1989 <a href="/wiki/Red_House_Children%27s_Book_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Red House Children's Book Award">Red House Children's Book Award</a>. In 2000, it received the <a href="/wiki/Blue_Peter" title="Blue Peter">Blue Peter</a> Book Award.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2003, <i>Matilda</i> was listed at number 74 in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Read" title="The Big Read">The Big Read</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> poll of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC200_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC200-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012 <i>Matilda</i> was ranked number 30 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by <i><a href="/wiki/School_Library_Journal" title="School Library Journal">School Library Journal</a></i>, a monthly with primarily US audience. It was the first of four books by Dahl among the Top 100, more than any other writer.<sup id="cite_ref-SLJChapter2012_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SLJChapter2012-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine included <i>Matilda</i> in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Worldwide sales have reached 17 million, and since 2016 sales have spiked to the extent that it outsells Dahl's other works.<sup id="cite_ref-thirty_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thirty-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2023, the novel was ranked by <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> at no. 10 in their poll of "The 100 greatest children's books of all time".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dahl's_inspiration"><span id="Dahl.27s_inspiration"></span>Dahl's inspiration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_(novel)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Dahl's inspiration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The "mean and loathsome" Mrs Pratchett, owner of the <a href="/wiki/11_High_Street,_Llandaff" title="11 High Street, Llandaff">sweet shop Dahl frequented</a> as a boy in <a href="/wiki/Cardiff" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a>, inspired Dahl's creation of Miss Trunchbull.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mr Wormwood was based on a real-life character from Dahl's home village of <a href="/wiki/Great_Missenden" title="Great Missenden">Great Missenden</a> in Buckinghamshire.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The library in Great Missenden was the inspiration for Mrs Phelps's library, where Matilda devours classic literature by the age of four and three months.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On Matilda's love of reading books, <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Dahl" title="Lucy Dahl">Lucy Dahl</a> stated that her father’s novel was, in part, about his love for books: "I think that there was a deep genuine fear within his heart that books were going to go away and he wanted to write about it."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_(novel)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Matilda_the_Musical" title="Matilda the Musical">Matilda the Musical</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matilda_(1996_film)" title="Matilda (1996 film)">Matilda (1996 film)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Matilda_the_Musical_(film)" title="Matilda the Musical (film)">Matilda the Musical (film)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cambridge_Theatre,_London_(33432075266).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Cambridge_Theatre%2C_London_%2833432075266%29.jpg/180px-Cambridge_Theatre%2C_London_%2833432075266%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="270" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Cambridge_Theatre%2C_London_%2833432075266%29.jpg/270px-Cambridge_Theatre%2C_London_%2833432075266%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Cambridge_Theatre%2C_London_%2833432075266%29.jpg/360px-Cambridge_Theatre%2C_London_%2833432075266%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3023" data-file-height="4534" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Matilda_the_Musical" title="Matilda the Musical">Matilda the Musical</a></i> has been performed at the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Theatre" title="Cambridge Theatre">Cambridge Theatre</a> in the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> since November 2011</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1990, the <a href="/wiki/Redgrave_Theatre,_Farnham" title="Redgrave Theatre, Farnham">Redgrave Theatre</a> in <a href="/wiki/Farnham" title="Farnham">Farnham</a> produced a musical version, adapted by Rony Robinson with music by <a href="/wiki/Ken_Howard_(composer)" title="Ken Howard (composer)">Ken Howard</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alan_Blaikley" title="Alan Blaikley">Alan Blaikley</a>, which toured the UK. It starred Annabelle Lanyon as Matilda and <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Linsley" title="Jonathan Linsley">Jonathan Linsley</a> as Miss Trunchbull and had mixed reviews.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A second musical version of the novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Matilda_the_Musical" title="Matilda the Musical">Matilda the Musical</a></i>, written by <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Kelly" title="Dennis Kelly">Dennis Kelly</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tim_Minchin" title="Tim Minchin">Tim Minchin</a> and commissioned by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">Royal Shakespeare Company</a>, premiered in November 2010. It opened at the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Theatre" title="Cambridge Theatre">Cambridge Theatre</a> in the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> on 24 November 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-SER_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SER-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-whatson_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whatson-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It opened on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> on 11 April 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Shubert_Theatre_(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shubert Theatre (New York City)">Shubert Theatre</a>. The musical has since done a US tour and opened in July 2015 in Australia. The stage version has become hugely popular with audiences and praised by critics, and won multiple <a href="/wiki/Olivier_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="Olivier Awards">Olivier Awards</a> in the UK and <a href="/wiki/Tony_Awards" title="Tony Awards">Tony Awards</a> in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One critic called it "the best British musical since <i><a href="/wiki/Billy_Elliot_the_Musical" title="Billy Elliot the Musical">Billy Elliot</a></i>".<sup id="cite_ref-IND_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IND-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The novel was made into the film <i><a href="/wiki/Matilda_(1996_film)" title="Matilda (1996 film)">Matilda</a></i> in 1996. It starred <a href="/wiki/Mara_Wilson" title="Mara Wilson">Mara Wilson</a> as Matilda, and was directed by <a href="/wiki/Danny_DeVito" title="Danny DeVito">Danny DeVito</a>, who also portrayed Mr Wormwood and narrated the story. The film changed the setting and nationality of every character (except Trunchbull who is played by Welsh actress <a href="/wiki/Pam_Ferris" title="Pam Ferris">Pam Ferris</a>) from British to American. Although not a commercial success, it received critical acclaim at the time of its release, and on <a href="/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes" title="Rotten Tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes</a> has a score of 90% based on reviews from 21 critics.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Cast_of_the_Matilda,_the_Musical_Performs_the_Song_%22Naughty%22_at_the_Annual_Unaccompanied_Tours_Holiday_Reception_(23428801189).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/The_Cast_of_the_Matilda%2C_the_Musical_Performs_the_Song_%22Naughty%22_at_the_Annual_Unaccompanied_Tours_Holiday_Reception_%2823428801189%29.jpg/220px-The_Cast_of_the_Matilda%2C_the_Musical_Performs_the_Song_%22Naughty%22_at_the_Annual_Unaccompanied_Tours_Holiday_Reception_%2823428801189%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/The_Cast_of_the_Matilda%2C_the_Musical_Performs_the_Song_%22Naughty%22_at_the_Annual_Unaccompanied_Tours_Holiday_Reception_%2823428801189%29.jpg/330px-The_Cast_of_the_Matilda%2C_the_Musical_Performs_the_Song_%22Naughty%22_at_the_Annual_Unaccompanied_Tours_Holiday_Reception_%2823428801189%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/The_Cast_of_the_Matilda%2C_the_Musical_Performs_the_Song_%22Naughty%22_at_the_Annual_Unaccompanied_Tours_Holiday_Reception_%2823428801189%29.jpg/440px-The_Cast_of_the_Matilda%2C_the_Musical_Performs_the_Song_%22Naughty%22_at_the_Annual_Unaccompanied_Tours_Holiday_Reception_%2823428801189%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4806" data-file-height="3204" /></a><figcaption>Cast of <i>Matilda the Musical</i> performing the song "Naughty" at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., December 2015</figcaption></figure> <p>In December 2009, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Classic_Serial" title="Classic Serial">Classic Serial</a></i> broadcast a two-part adaptation by Charlotte Jones of the novel with <a href="/wiki/Lenny_Henry" title="Lenny Henry">Lenny Henry</a> as the Narrator, <a href="/wiki/Lauren_Mote" title="Lauren Mote">Lauren Mote</a> as Matilda, <a href="/wiki/Nichola_McAuliffe" title="Nichola McAuliffe">Nichola McAuliffe</a> as Miss Trunchbull, Emerald O'Hanrahan as Miss Honey, <a href="/wiki/Claire_Rushbrook" title="Claire Rushbrook">Claire Rushbrook</a> as Mrs Wormwood and John Biggins as Mr Wormwood.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The book has been recorded as an audiobook by at least ten different narrators since the 1980s<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>. In 1998, <a href="/wiki/Miriam_Margolyes" title="Miriam Margolyes">Miriam Margolyes</a> narrated an abridged recording for <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Random_House" title="Penguin Random House">Penguin Random House</a> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription 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.cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0140868232" title="Special:BookSources/0140868232">0140868232</a> on cassette in 1998 and republished as <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0141805542" title="Special:BookSources/978-0141805542">978-0141805542</a> on CD in 2004).<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2004, <a href="/wiki/Joely_Richardson" title="Joely Richardson">Joely Richardson</a> narrated the unabridged audiobook for <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">Harper Childrens Audio</a> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0060582548" title="Special:BookSources/978-0060582548">978-0060582548</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, <a href="/wiki/Kate_Winslet" title="Kate Winslet">Kate Winslet</a> narrated an unabridged recording for <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Random_House" title="Penguin Random House">Listening Library</a> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1611761849" title="Special:BookSources/978-1611761849">978-1611761849</a>);<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes/gobblefunk_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes/gobblefunk-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-musicbrainz/Matilda/Winslet_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musicbrainz/Matilda/Winslet-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Audio_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Audio-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 2014, the <a href="/wiki/American_Library_Association" title="American Library Association">American Library Association</a> shortlisted her for an <a href="/wiki/Odyssey_Award" title="Odyssey Award">Odyssey Award</a> for her performance.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 27 November 2018, <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> was revealed to be adapting <i>Matilda</i> as an animated series, which will be part of an "animated event series" along with other Roald Dahl books such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_BFG" title="The BFG">The BFG</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twits" title="The Twits">The Twits</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory" title="Charlie and the Chocolate Factory">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Matilda_the_Musical_(film)" title="Matilda the Musical (film)">film adaptation</a> of <a href="/wiki/Matilda_the_Musical" title="Matilda the Musical">the musical</a> was released by <a href="/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Releasing" class="mw-redirect" title="Sony Pictures Releasing">Sony Pictures Releasing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> in 2022. It stars Alisha Weir as Matilda and <a href="/wiki/Emma_Thompson" title="Emma Thompson">Emma Thompson</a> as <a href="/wiki/Miss_Trunchbull" title="Miss Trunchbull">Miss Trunchbull</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is directed by <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Warchus" title="Matthew Warchus">Matthew Warchus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FirstTrailer_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FirstTrailer-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_novel_at_30">The novel at 30</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_(novel)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The novel at 30"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Celebrating 30 years of the book's publication in October 2018, original illustrator <a href="/wiki/Quentin_Blake" title="Quentin Blake">Quentin Blake</a> imagined what Matilda might be doing as a grown-up woman today. He drew images of her undertaking three possible roles: an explorer, an <a href="/wiki/Astrophysics" title="Astrophysics">astrophysicist</a>, and a librarian at the <a href="/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library">British Library</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-thirty_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thirty-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2023_censorship_controversy">2023 censorship controversy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_(novel)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2023 censorship controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl_revision_controversy" title="Roald Dahl revision controversy">Roald Dahl revision controversy</a></div> <p>Despite Roald Dahl having enjoined his publishers not to "so much as change a single comma in one of my books", in February 2023 <a href="/wiki/Puffin_Books" title="Puffin Books">Puffin Books</a>, a division of <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Books" title="Penguin Books">Penguin Books</a>, announced it would be re-writing portions of many of Dahl's children's novels, changing the language to, in the publisher's words, "ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The decision was met with sharp criticism from groups and public figures including authors <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Deseret_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Deseret-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Paolini" title="Christopher Paolini">Christopher Paolini</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Deseret_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Deseret-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> British prime minister <a href="/wiki/Rishi_Sunak" title="Rishi Sunak">Rishi Sunak</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-NPR_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Queen_Camilla" title="Queen Camilla">Queen Camilla</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-NPR_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kemi_Badenoch" title="Kemi Badenoch">Kemi Badenoch</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Politico_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politico-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/PEN_America" title="PEN America">PEN America</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-NPR_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Brian_Cox_(actor)" title="Brian Cox (actor)">Brian Cox</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Politico_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politico-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dahl's publishers in the United States, France, and the Netherlands announced they had declined to incorporate the changes.<sup id="cite_ref-NPR_37-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the backlash, on 23 February 2023, Puffin announced it would release an unedited selection of Dahl's children's books as "The Roald Dahl Classic Collection" because of "the importance of keeping Dahl's classic texts in print."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i>Matilda</i>, more than sixty changes were made, including replacing references to <a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Conrad" title="Joseph Conrad">Joseph Conrad</a> with <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a>, removing references to skin colour (such as "turning white", "beginning to go dark red", "red in the face", and "white as paper"), removing or changing the words <i>fat</i>, <i>mad</i>, and <i>crazy</i> (such as changing "wobbling crazily" to "wobbling unsteadily"), removing the word <i>madonna</i>, and changing <i>heroine</i> to <i>hero</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Telegraph_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telegraph-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table style="margin:auto;" class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th style="width: 50%;">Original text </th> <th style="width: 50%;">2023 text<sup id="cite_ref-Telegraph_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telegraph-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td>'It is a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing-organs in the sides of the abdomen. Your daughter Vanessa, judging by what she's learnt this term, has no hearing-organs at all.' </td> <td>'It is a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing-organs in the sides of the abdomen. Judging by what your daughter Vanessa has learnt this term, this fact alone is more interesting than anything I have taught in the classroom.' </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Connections_to_other_Roald_Dahl_books">Connections to other Roald Dahl books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_(novel)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Connections to other Roald Dahl books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One of Miss Trunchbull's punishments is to force an overweight child, Bruce Bogtrotter, to eat an enormous chocolate cake, which makes him so full that he cannot move. The cook had caught him stealing a piece of cake from the kitchen. In <i>Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes</i><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> one of the recipes is based on that cake. Bruce is a more sympathetic variation of Augustus Gloop (from <i><a href="/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory" title="Charlie and the Chocolate Factory">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</a></i>) and similar gluttons, and he is praised for finishing the cake without suffering nausea.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The short story <i><a href="/wiki/The_Magic_Finger" title="The Magic Finger">The Magic Finger</a></i> by Roald Dahl, released in 1966, may have been a precursor to <i>Matilda</i>. A young girl has power within her finger to do things to other people when she gets emotional about a cause she feels strongly about. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Continuation_stories">Continuation stories</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_(novel)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Continuation stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2024 a collection of short stories by new writers titled <i><a href="/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Christmas_Factory" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlie and the Christmas Factory">Charlie and the Christmas Factory</a></i> was published by Puffin including a <a href="/wiki/Continuation_novel" title="Continuation novel">continuation</a> story on Matilda by <a href="/wiki/Elle_McNicoll" title="Elle McNicoll">Elle McNicoll</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_(novel)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Attachment_theory" title="Attachment theory">Attachment theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Child_abuse" title="Child abuse">Child abuse</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_(novel)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Listen to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/matilda_202208">the BBC Radio adaptation of <i>Matilda</i></a> on the Internet Archive</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_(novel)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-BBC200-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BBC200_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BBC200_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml">"The Big Read – Top 100 Books"</a>. 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Factory</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Magic_Finger" title="The Magic Finger">The Magic Finger</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fantastic_Mr_Fox" title="Fantastic Mr Fox">Fantastic Mr Fox</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Great_Glass_Elevator" title="Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator">Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Danny,_the_Champion_of_the_World" title="Danny, the Champion of the World">Danny, the Champion of the World</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Enormous_Crocodile" title="The Enormous Crocodile">The Enormous Crocodile</a></i> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Twits" title="The Twits">The Twits</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/George%27s_Marvellous_Medicine" title="George's Marvellous Medicine">George's Marvellous Medicine</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_BFG" title="The BFG">The BFG</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Witches_(novel)" title="The Witches (novel)">The Witches</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Giraffe_and_the_Pelly_and_Me" title="The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me">The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Matilda</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Esio_Trot" title="Esio Trot">Esio Trot</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Vicar_of_Nibbleswicke" title="The Vicar of Nibbleswicke">The Vicar of Nibbleswicke</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Minpins" title="The Minpins">The Minpins</a></i> (1991)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Children's poetry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Revolting_Rhymes" title="Revolting Rhymes">Revolting Rhymes</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dirty_Beasts" title="Dirty Beasts">Dirty Beasts</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rhyme_Stew" title="Rhyme Stew">Rhyme Stew</a></i> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adult novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Some_Time_Never:_A_Fable_for_Supermen" title="Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen">Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Uncle_Oswald" title="My Uncle Oswald">My Uncle Oswald</a></i> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short story<br />collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Over_to_You:_Ten_Stories_of_Flyers_and_Flying" title="Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying">Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying</a></i> (1946)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Someone_Like_You_(short_story_collection)" title="Someone Like You (short story collection)">Someone Like You</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kiss_Kiss_(book)" title="Kiss Kiss (book)">Kiss Kiss</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twenty-Nine_Kisses_from_Roald_Dahl" title="Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl">Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Switch_Bitch" title="Switch Bitch">Switch Bitch</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wonderful_Story_of_Henry_Sugar_and_Six_More" title="The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_of_Roald_Dahl" title="The Best of Roald Dahl">The Best of Roald Dahl</a></i> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_of_the_Unexpected_(short_story_collection)" title="Tales of the Unexpected (short story collection)">Tales of the Unexpected</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/More_Tales_of_the_Unexpected" title="More Tales of the Unexpected">More Tales of the Unexpected</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Roald_Dahl_Omnibus" title="The Roald Dahl Omnibus">The Roald Dahl Omnibus</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Two_Fables" title="Two Fables">Two Fables</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ah,_Sweet_Mystery_of_Life:_The_Country_Stories_of_Roald_Dahl" title="Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl">Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Collected_Short_Stories_of_Roald_Dahl" title="The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl">The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Roald_Dahl_Treasury" title="The Roald Dahl Treasury">The Roald Dahl Treasury</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Automatic_Grammatizator" title="The Great Automatic Grammatizator">The Great Automatic Grammatizator</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Skin_and_Other_Stories" title="Skin and Other Stories">Skin and Other Stories</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl:_Collected_Stories" title="Roald Dahl: Collected Stories">Roald Dahl: Collected Stories</a></i> (2006)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Non-fiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mildenhall_Treasure" title="The Mildenhall Treasure">The Mildenhall Treasure</a></i> (1946)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boy_(autobiography)" title="Boy (autobiography)">Boy: Tales of Childhood</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Going_Solo" title="Going Solo">Going Solo</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Measles:_A_Dangerous_Illness" title="Measles: A Dangerous Illness">Measles: A Dangerous Illness</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Memories_with_Food_at_Gipsy_House" title="Memories with Food at Gipsy House">Memories with Food at Gipsy House</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl%27s_Guide_to_Railway_Safety" title="Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety">Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Year" title="My Year">My Year</a></i> (1993)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Film adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/36_Hours_(1964_film)" title="36 Hours (1964 film)">36 Hours</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Willy_Wonka_%26_the_Chocolate_Factory" title="Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory">Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Danny,_the_Champion_of_the_World_(film)" title="Danny, the Champion of the World (film)">Danny, the Champion of the World</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_BFG_(1989_film)" title="The BFG (1989 film)">The BFG</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Breaking_Point_(1989_film)" title="Breaking Point (1989 film)">Breaking Point</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Witches_(1990_film)" title="The Witches (1990 film)">The Witches</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Four_Rooms" title="Four Rooms">Four Rooms</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/James_and_the_Giant_Peach_(film)" title="James and the Giant Peach (film)">James and the Giant Peach</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Matilda_(1996_film)" title="Matilda (1996 film)">Matilda</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory_(film)" title="Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fantastic_Mr._Fox_(film)" title="Fantastic Mr. Fox (film)">Fantastic Mr. Fox</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Esio_Trot_(film)" title="Esio Trot (film)">Roald Dahl's Esio Trot</a></i> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_BFG_(2016_film)" title="The BFG (2016 film)">The BFG</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Revolting_Rhymes_(film)" title="Revolting Rhymes (film)">Revolting Rhymes</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry:_Willy_Wonka_and_the_Chocolate_Factory" title="Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory">Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory</a></i> (2017)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Witches_(2020_film)" title="The Witches (2020 film)">The Witches</a></i> (2020)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Matilda_the_Musical_(film)" title="Matilda the Musical (film)">Matilda the Musical</a></i> (2022)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wonderful_Story_of_Henry_Sugar_(film)" title="The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (film)">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar</a></i> (2023)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wonka_(film)" title="Wonka (film)">Wonka</a></i> (2023)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wonderful_Story_of_Henry_Sugar_and_Three_More" title="The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More</a></i> (2024)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Twits_(film)" title="The Twits (film)">The Twits</a></i> (2025)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Film scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bells_of_Hell_Go_Ting-a-ling-a-ling#1966_film" title="The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling">The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling</a></i> (1966, unfinished)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(film)" title="You Only Live Twice (film)">You Only Live Twice</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang" title="Chitty Chitty Bang Bang">Chitty Chitty Bang Bang</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_Digger" title="The Night Digger">The Night Digger</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Willy_Wonka_%26_the_Chocolate_Factory" title="Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory">Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory</a></i> (1971)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/%27Way_Out" title="'Way Out">'Way Out</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_of_the_Unexpected_(TV_series)" title="Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)">Tales of the Unexpected</a></i> (1979–88) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Tales_of_the_Unexpected_episodes" title="List of Tales of the Unexpected episodes">episodes</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Musicals and plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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