Matilda is a unique child. By the time she is three she has taught herself to read by studying newspapers around the house. Every day when her mom leaves for bingo Matilda walks to the library and reads anything in sight. Her parents are neglectful and abusive, but Matilda gets revenge by thinking up clever pranks involving super glue or ghosts and parrots. When she starts school her intelligence is immediately recognized which is how she gets to know Miss Honey, but also how she […]