We all have cherished memories of the books we read and shared as children ... thoroughly imbued into the popular imagination. 14. Matilda by Roald Dahl (1988) I’m willing to bet that after ...

using this confrontation between Matilda and Miss Trunchbull as an example. This extract is from Chapter 14: The First Miracle. Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach' read by Bella Ramsey.

The book and the eponymous heroine ... I fell on it and devoured it as feverishly as Matilda did her precious contraband (in her profoundly anti-reading family) from the library.