This book is part of a book series called Red Fox Picture .
There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 1992 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was an Anglo-French writer, orator, satirist and historian. Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis are two of Britian's best-loved actors and are award-winning voice actors. Posy Simmonds is the author of several books for adults and children, including Lulu and the Flying Babies and Fred. Her weekly cartoon strip ran in "The Guardian" from 1977 to 1987. She lives in England.
This book contains the following story:
Matilda
Matilda is a brilliant and sensitive child, but her parents think of her only as a nuisance. Even before she is five years old, she has read Dickens and Hemingway and still her parents think of her as a pest. So she decides to get back at them. Her platinum-haired mother and car salesman father are no match for her sharp genius, and neither is the cruel headmistress Miss Trunchbull. And then she child prodigy discovers she has an extraordinary psychic power that can save her school and especially the lovely kindergarten teacher, Miss Honey...
