This is a fantastic story. Matilda is a phenomenon, who has read a bunch of world famous novels such as Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Moby-Dick by Herm Melville and others.
The most exciting part is the scene in which the schoolmaster, Miss Tranchbull reads the letters on the blackboard, which Matilda writes with the power of her eyes. They go:
Agatha, this is Magnus. You'd better believe it. Agatha give my Jenny back her house. Give my Jenny her wages. Give my Jenny the house Then get out of here. If you don't, I will come and get you like you got me. I am watching you, Agatha.
It is surprizing that Trunchbull is Miss Hony's mother-in-law.
In the end, Matilda is allowed by her parents to live with Miss Honey, and her parents and brother leave for Spain.
The story is funny, intersting, and exciting. It describes every scene minutely enough for the reader to imagine it vividly.
And I must add here that the story is read aloud by a genious reader, probably Kate Winslet. Her way of reading aloud is superb. I had never heard a book read so well as she reads. English textbooks used in high schools in Japan should let the students liesten to her reading. They will surely be fascinated.
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