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 ...

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.

We all have cherished memories of the books we read and shared as children. Big friendly giants, honey-loving bears, hungry caterpillars, iron men: these figures populate the vivid imaginary ...