Matilda Who Told Such Dreadful

by Hilaire Belloc and Steven Kellogg

Book Overview

An incorrigible liar finds that when she needs help the most no one will believe what she has to say. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679826580
• ISBN13: 9780679826583
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 22 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.1" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Ummm, people - this is the poem by Belloc, not the book by Dahl

Apparently whoever put this page together doesn't grasp that it's about the poem by Hilaire Belloc, as illustrated by Posy Simmonds, not about Roald Dahl's book. The poem is hilarious - one of Belloc's Awful Warning poems - and the illustrations of a beady-eyed, sneaky looking Matilda set it off beautifully. I recommend it highly!

A book that everyone can 'READ'

I give this book as a gift to every 1 year old I know. It gets great reviews from both the parent and the child! When my niece was 2 1/2 she love to "read" the book to me! My newphew took it to preschool on his 'show and tell' day... he wanted to show everyone he knew how to read. It is a simple book... colors, counting, and animals (the illustrations are great).

Son's Favorite

This is the only book our son will sit through (time after time). He loves to open the flaps and the illustrations are bright and funny. I had to order another because our first one is almost worn out. Highly recommended.

A simple yet clever book of numbers, colors and animals.

This is one of our toddler's very favorites. Van Fleet's illustrations are amusing, as well as intriguing in the way that he incorporates a part of an animal in the number that is shown with it. The concept is straightforward enough, presenting numbers, colors and animals without excess words or imagery. Yet the presentation is made clever and engaging by the double-folded pages and the surprise of the final two illustrations. This is a book we have given as a gift repeatedly!