Roald Dahl"s Matilda won the Children"s Book Award shortly after it was published in 1988, and it has continued to delight audiences ever since. Matilda Wormwood is only five years old, but she is a genius. Unfortunately her parents are too stupid to even notice. Worse, her horrible headmistress Miss Trunchbull is a bully who makes life difficult for Matilda"s teacher, Miss Honey, and her friends. But what Miss Trunchbull doesn"t know is that Matilda has a trick or two up her sleeve...