Plot also includes "revenge pranks" that could have seriously hurt someone (like putting peroxide into father's hair tonic). Safety issues bothered me, like Matilda walking to library daily without parents knowing, going to the "lovely teacher's" home without anyone knowing. Cast includes Matilda's abusive, dishonest and neglectful parents, a horribly abusive school principle (throwing children, locking them in a nail studded locker for hours, lots of verbal abuse) and a lovely school teacher and librarian. but I would still be very cautious about offering to younger children, sensitive children, or ones that might impulsively imitate her behavior or the language of the adults in the book. I (an adult) had a lot of fun listening to this quirky little tale centered around the precocious 6 year old Matilda. Perhaps just for the fun of listening to Kate Winslet. Can't even begin to explain why I purchased a child's book, that I didn't choose to have my children read in the 80's when it came out.
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