{"product_id":"matilda-colour-edition","title":"Matilda (Colour Edition)","description":"About the Author\n\nRoald 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.\n\nQuentin 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.\n\nProduct Description\n\n\"A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero\" - David Walliams\n\n\"So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.\"\n\nMatilda is the world's most famous bookworm, no thanks to her ghastly parents.\n\nHer father thinks she's a little scab. Her mother spends all afternoon playing bingo.\n\nAnd her headmistress, Miss Trunchbull?\n\nShe's the worst of all.\n\nShe's a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded Chokey.\n\nDespite these beastly grownups trying to push her down, Matilda is an extraordinary girl with a magical mind.\n\nAnd she's had enough.\n\nSo all the terrible adults had better watch out, because she's going to teach them a lesson they'll never forget!\n\nNow you can listen to MATILDA and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios!\n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\nMatilda Wormwood's father thinks she's a little scab. Matilda's mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda's headmistress Miss Trunchbull? Well, she's the worst of all. She is a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded Chokey. As for Matilda, she's an extraordinary little girl with a magical mind - and now she's had enough. So all these grown-ups had better watch out, because Matilda is going to teach them a lesson they'll never forget.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40377541984341,"sku":"9780141365466N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/effe1eaf-9f45-469e-b356-fd7275dc118e.jpg?v=1665564923","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/matilda-colour-edition","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}