I still have my childhood copy of Matilda. Its faded yellow spine peeks out at me from the shelf, standing proudly beside Mrs. Dalloway and East of Eden. As a child who had a Much Ado About Nothing-themed birthday party in second grade and wore a tattered, red cape to school every day for a year, I knew what it was like to feel like a bit of an outcast. When I read of the genius Matilda performing acts of vengeance upon her anti-literacy parents and sadistic principal, I felt the cathartic relief of empowerment. In Matilda, who tirelessly fights the villain of a judgmental and unseeing world, I found my first superhero. The fact that she has actual magical powers, but that her greatest superpower is a love of learning and reading, only made her an even greater Wonder Woman-like figure in my eyes. Matilda teaches us that the fight to be our true selves is of the utmost importance. By imparting that message, Roald Dahl hooked me, creating a lifelong reader who continues to search for stories of underdogs, particularly those taking the form of young, underestimated girls.
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