6/19/2023 0 Comments Matilda roald dahl book![]() ![]() She traveled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. Matilda has a love of learning and books, and her parents think she is stupid and deride her for reading while they watch mindless Soap Operas and Game Shows. ![]() Occasionally she made Bovril or Ovaltine. A Roald Dahl book about an exceptionally clever little girl, Matilda Wormwood, who has exceptionally horrible and ignorant parents. ![]() Mostly it was hot chocolate she made, warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it. She was not quite tall enough to reach things around in the kitchen, but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted. Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and read most afternoons, often with a mug of hot chocolate beside her. “From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the old ones. ![]()
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