She immediately shows amazing precocity, learning to speak at age one and to read at age three and a half, perusing all the children's books in the library by the age of four and three months and moving on to longer classics such as Great Expectations and Jane Eyre. In a small Buckinghamshire village forty minutes by bus away from Reading and 8 miles from Aylesbury, Matilda Wormwood is born to Mr and Mrs Wormwood. In 2012, Matilda Wormwood appeared on a Royal Mail commemorative postage stamp. Time magazine named Matilda in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. In 2012, Matilda was ranked number 30 among all-time best children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a US monthly. In 2003, Matilda was listed at number 74 in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time. A film adaptation of the musical, Matilda the Musical, was released in 2022. The book has been adapted in various media, including an audio reading by actress Kate Winslet a 1996 feature film Matilda directed by Danny DeVito a two-part BBC Radio 4 programme and a 2010–2011 musical Matilda the Musical which ran on the West End in London, Broadway in New York, and around the world. The story features Matilda Wormwood, a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in school run by the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull.
It was published in 1988 by Jonathan Cape. Matilda is a children's novel written by British writer Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
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