With Roald Dahl's streak of naughtiness meshed with Tim Minchin's excellent lyrics, Matilda is a match made in an eight-year-old's idea of heavenIn a recent episode of Outnumbered, a headmistress in the mould of Roald Dahl's deliciously vile adults announces her desire to ban the beloved author. "He's probably ruined more children's lives than polio," she sneers. "Ruined them with the ludicrous belief …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AM on April 7, 2014