The paper presents findings from a reader response study conducted in February 2013 with 150 children aged 7–11 in which they discussed extracts and clips from Roald Dahl’s Matilda (1988) and its cinematic adaptation (1996). Dahl and Matilda were chosen because they provoke emphatic responses from adults, often commenting on the effects of Dahl upon young readers, and thus exemplify the uneasy int...... hiện toàn bộ