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Matilda
Roald Dahl published Matilda in October 1988, three years before his death, and it is widely considered the finest novel he wrote for children. Published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and illustrated by Quentin Blake, it follows Matilda Wormwood, a girl of extraordinary intelligence born into an indifferent, frankly negligent family in a small…
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876, and within a generation it had become one of the most widely read books in the American literary canon. It is the story of a boy named Tom Sawyer growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, sometime in the antebellum South. Tom…
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The Witches
Published in 1983 and illustrated by Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl’s The Witches is one of the most beloved and genuinely frightening books in children’s literature. The story begins with the narrator, a young English boy living in Norway, learning from his grandmother that real witches exist. These are not the pointy-hat, broomstick variety of fairy…
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