Book one - COMPLETE! I've never read Great Expectations before, but it's the first book Matilda reads from the grown-up section of the library so I had to. It's long. 554 pages! Althought Matilda's edition is 411 pages so hers was either a large hardback or a much smaller font. DID I LIKE IT? Yes! Everyone says Pip is one of Dickens' greatest characters. Did you know the book is in three volumes? Volume one - childhood. Pip is naive. Volume two - becoming a gentleman. Pip is

Matilda read the following classics recommended by her marvellous librarian, Mrs Phelps. How many have you read? I have... read three seen screen/stage adaptations of two more never heard of three supposed to read another one for school but never got past chapter 8 I bet you've done more than me! I'll pick books to read throughout the year and set up some way for us to chat about them. If you've already read one, no need to read again! Can't wait to hear what you think about

My 2026 hobby is going to be reading Matilda's reading list - will you join me? You know! In Chapter One of Matilda by Roald Dahl, Mrs Phelps the librarian helps Matilda with what to read next, after she has finished all the books in the Children's section. The Secret Garden was her favourite of all. Mrs Phelps suggests Great Expectations and then over the next six months: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë