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MATILDA

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
BY THE SAME AUTHOR

James and the Giant Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Magic Finger
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Danny, the Champion of the World
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
The Enormous Crocodile
The Twits
e's Marvellous Medicine
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
The BFG
Dirty Beasts
The Witches
Boy
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Going Solo

Roald Dahl
MATILDA
Illustrations by Quentin Blake
VIKING KESTREL

For
Michael and Lucy
VIKING KESTREL
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First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1988 First American edition
published 1988
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Text copyright © Roald Dahl, 1988
Illustrations copyright © Quentin Blake, 1988
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from
"In Country Sleep" from The Poems of Dylan Thomas. Copyright 1947,1952
Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Library of Congress catalog card number: 88-40312
ISBN 0-670-82439-9
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