using this confrontation between Matilda and Miss Trunchbull as an example. This extract is from Chapter 14: The First Miracle. Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach' read by Bella Ramsey.

Matilda to Alice in Wonderland - THE LIST: The classics you may already know, and the hidden gems that deserve more attention ...

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 ...

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.