Matilda (Audio CD)
Author(s): Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake
Puffin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's Matilda, read by Kate Winslet. This audiobook features original music and sound design by Pinewood film studios. Matilda Wormwood is an extraordinary genius with really stupid parents. Miss Trunchbull is her terrifying headmistress who thinks all her pupils are rotten little stinkers. But Matilda will show these horrible grown-ups that even though she's only small, she's got some very powerful tricks up her sleeve...Kate Winslet's award-winning and varied career has included standout roles in Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, Revolutionary Road and The Reader, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Also a highly acclaimed voice artist, she received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Listen to the Storyteller.
Product Information
A true genius ... Roald Dahl is my hero -- David Walliams
Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head", sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Puffin
- : 0.186
- : 31 March 2013
- : 152mm X 137mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 September 2013
- : 01 February 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake
- : CD-Audio
- : Unabridged
- : Quentin Blake