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| Dormant: Children's Fiction : matilda | | 4 | Tanith, May 2007 | |
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| Book talk : Your favorite book? | | 88 | Storeetllr, Friday 4:32pm |
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| List Five Books Parlour Game : One word says it all... | | 67 | SpiraledStar, August 17 |
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| What did YOU buy today? : Message Board #2 | | 188 | karen5l, June 29 |
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| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : sandragon's 2007 50 book challenge | | 18 | sandragon, January 4 |
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| Dormant: Children's Fiction : Welcome | | 92 | shelagh, October 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 7 Oct 2006 | | 112 | SqueakyChu, October 2006 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : classic children's books | | 31 | hailelib, October 2006 |
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Favorite Book (so far): Oh lord. Tossup between Ender's Game, The Princess Bride, Matilda, Battle Royale... I can't choose. Don't make me!
Favorite Movie (so far): Oy, another one. The Princess Bride, Meet the Robinsons, 10 Things I Hate About You, T ... ... jeugdboeken aan het lezen, maar als ik ze lees, lees ik ze vaak "tussendoor", in 1 of 2 dagen uit. Ik heb recentelijk wel Matilda gelezen, die was leuk. ... mooching some of my old favorites to give to my niece. I was thinking The Island of the Blue Dolphins, Roald Dahl's Matilda, and The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin.
Isn't it wonderful, the stories you remember while browsing people's inventories? :)
Elizabeth ("fullmoonblue")
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11 july Norton, Andre Red hart magic
18 july Morressy, John Under a calculating star
20 july Dahl, Roald Matilda
26 july Heinlein, Robert The Door Into Summer
56 books so far! Matilda by Roald Dahl
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
I read each of these about once a year-sometimes more. ... Sawyer
the D'Aulaires Greek Myths
Just So Stories
The Popcorn Dragon
Zen Shorts
Anything by Dr. Seuss
Matilda and others by Roald Dahl
The Book of Beasts and others by E. Nesbit
Poetry Speaks Children which includes a CD with some of the poets reading their poems
... by Kamila Shamsie
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Lilith by Jean Plaidy
March by Geraldine Brooks
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Moo by Jane Smiley
Remake by Connie Willis
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Sideshow by Sheri ... ... up, I also have fallen in love with Roald Dahl books (James and the Giant Peach, Chalie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and others). September 18, 1984: One by one, Matilda examined the 13 clocks in the drawing room of the Professor’s House. Could the secret history behind the professor's experiements involving the moonstone finally be revealed? Why not try out The Double Fudge Dare then? And Matilda has a couple good cake scenes... Or there's always 100 Pounds of Popcorn... Does anyone not like Matilda?
I think it's very hard not to like it and it IS a novel :) ... that rhymes with witch! You might be mixing it up with another Roald Dahl, The Witches.
Definitely read the book, Matilda. The movie is great, but so is the book, and it has a lot more depth as books always do. ... are probably Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (or it was when I was six, I haven't read it in awhile), Matilda by Roald Dahl, My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli, and most of all The Giver by Lois Lowry. I've ... ... Henry books (ie. Misty of Chincoteague) along with other random novels, like Island of the Blue Dolphins, Poppy, and Matilda. ... Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling, reread ****
Gossamer by Lois Lowry *****
Read with my son:
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Currently working on:
What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling on ... ... on:
The Children of Men by P.D. James
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling on audio, reread
Matilda by Roald Dahl with my son
#34: This makes me think of the Roald Dahl book Matilda, where Matilda, a genious little girl, can do amazing things with her mind—moving chalk around without touching it, things like that—until she starts channeling her intellect to its full potential in more normal areas, and her 'mirac ... ... the witches in Witches and particularly nasty are the main characters' family members in various books. The parents in Matilda, the aunts in James and the Giant Peach, the grandmother in George's Marvelous Medicine. Particularly wicked in that family members are supposed to be people ... ... Named Things
Some of my favorite kids novels are:
Harry Potter
Anything by Roald Dahl, but especially Charlie and Matilda
A Wrinkle in Time
Because of Winn-Dixie
Speak
The Folk Keeper
Well Wished ... stores in my town...for my pocketbook, anyway! I spent $19...
Today I bought:
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Matilda by Roald Dahl
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Acorna's P ... lisa211: I love Matilda and the film version was very good as well. My favourite Roald Dahl is George's Marvellous Medicine. ... Robinson
Robin Hood
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
A little more recent (20th century), but still classics:
Matilda (and many other Roald Dahl books)
The Saturdays (and the rest of the series)
The Hundred Dresses
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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