Book: Matilda. Page 2

If they'd read at least one book by Dickens or Kipling they would understand that life is more than a fraud or stupid sitting in front of a TV.

- I'm afraid men are not always as smart as they themselves think.

Many speculated that the cake is stuffed peppers, or add castor oil, or put some other kind of stuff which this poor guy will turn inside out. Some believed that the cake is hidden a bomb that will explode as soon as Bruce cut him. No one at the school doubted that Trunchbull and is not capable of.

Mr and Mrs wormwood are eagerly waiting for the moment when with a light heart can be rid of his daughter, and it is preferable that it is in the neighbouring County, and even better - somewhere else.

It is terrible when parents treat their children like those of a sore spot, from which some trouble, but much worse for such parents of unusual child, endowed with a nature and brilliant mind and sensitive soul.

- Dad, - she said to father, ' you can buy me a book?
- Book? - he was surprised. What is this?
- To read, daddy.
- You want the TV a little? We have a nice telly with a twelve-inch screen, and you need a book, you see, needed! Are you nuts?