MATILDA
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
James and the Giant Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Magic Finger
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Danny, the Champion of the World
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More The Enormous Crocodile
The Twits
George's Marvellous Medicine
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
The BFG
Dirty Beasts
The Witches
Boy
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Going Solo
Roald Dahl
MATILDA
Illustrations by Quentin Blake VIKING KESTREL
For
Michael and Lucy
VIKING KESTREL
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Penguin Books |N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1988 First American edition published 1988