Welcome to our stop during Matilda 25th Anniversary blog tour.
Matilda is turning 25 this year! Kind of unbelievable, right? How can it already be 25 years since this wonderfully witty, intelligent five-year-old sprang onto the literary scene, inspiring all of us to read more and fight the man with our powers of telekinesis (Er, or just wish we had powers of telekinesis)? We’re celebrating this milestone with an epic 25-stop blog tour! Follow along to find out how your favorite bloggers feel about Matilda, and for a chance to win a Matilda prize pack at each and every stop!
“’A precocious child,’ Miss Honey said, ‘is one that shows amazing intelligence early on. You are an unbelievably precocious child.’
‘Am I really?’ Matilda asked.
‘Of course you are. You must be aware of that. Look at your reading. Look at your mathematics.’
‘I suppose you’re right.’ Matilda said.
Miss Honey marveled at the child’s lack of conceit and self-consciousness.
‘I can’t help wondering,’ she said, ‘whether this sudden ability that has come to you, of being able to move an object without touching it, whether it might have something to do with your brainpower.’
Even if the rest of us never achieve telekinesis, books can give everyone a kind of superpower. Every Thursday, bloggers on the Matilda 25th Anniversary tour will write about what kind of superpower they’ve gained from reading. Add your own superpower in the comments!
About Roald Dahl:
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in
Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to "a wonderful faraway place.” In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children's books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world over. Matilda was published just two years before he died. Quentin Blake, the first Children's Laureate of the United Kingdom, has illustrated most of Roald Dahl's children's books.
To find out more about Matilda the Musical on Broadway, visit their Facebook page!
For the next stop on the Matilda 25th Anniversary blog tour, head to Me, My Shelf, and I tomorrow!
To keep the celebration going, we have one Matilda prize pack to giveaway. This giveaway is open to US residents only. The prize pack includes a paperback copy of Matilda (The pink cover version), a copy of the Matilda Broadway soundtrack and a Matilda Broadway poster. Good luck!
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