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Roald dahl's much-loved matilda, now in a stunning large paperback format with quentin blake's original illustrations in full colour. This new edition sits alongside george's marvellous medicine, james and the giant peach, the twits, fantastic mr fox and charlie and the chocolate factory, also in full colour, paperback editions. Matilda wormwood is an extraordinary genius with really stupid parents. Miss trunchbull is her terrifying headmistress who thinks all her pupils are rotten little stinkers. But matilda will show these horrible grown-ups that even though she's only small, she's got some very powerful tricks up her sleeve . . . Matilda is also a phenomenally successful, award-winning london stage musical, adapted for the stage by dennis kelly with music by tim minchin. Roald dahl is the world's number one storyteller, with global sales of over 100 million. Born in llandaff, wales in 1916, his books are still loved by millions all over the world, despite his death in 1990.