2022 is the Year Of Matilda. The film of the award-winning musical, starring Emma Thompson, Stephen Graham and Angela Risborough, will hit UK cinemas (and Netlfix in the rest of the world) in December.This film tie-in edition, with a brand-new cover using film art, comes with a foreword from Emma Thompson.
Matilda continues to be a perennially popular classic - loved by parents, teachers and children alike. In the past year alone Matilda has sold over 30,000 copies through TCM, and she is as relevant now as she was when she was first published over thirty years ago.
Worldwide sales of Roald Dahl's books have exceeded 100 million. And Roald Dahl Story Day continues to be a huge event of the year, celebrating the amazing characters and stories that continue to enchant and entertain.
Roald Dahl (Author)
Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. He remains THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE STORYTELLER.
Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. In 1980 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration.
*Features lyrics from a brand-new song by Tim Minchin - written especially for the new Matilda the Musical film!*
Read it before you see the film - hitting cinemas in October, and starring Emma Thompson, Stephen Graham and Lashana Lynch.
These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: you are not alone.
Matilda is a brilliant child with a magical mind.
Her parents have decided she is a waste of space.
And her headmistress Miss Trunchball is a terrible bully, who thinks children are rotten and awful and should be locked up.
But it's time for Matilda to find the power to change her story, and show them just how extraordinary children can be . . .
