Matilda /
Roald Dahl ; illustrated by Quentin Blake.
- London, England : Puffin Books, 2007, 1998.
- 229 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Five-year old Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding, but they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers.