Matilda by Roald Dahl
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the reader of books. It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers, even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine. They still think that he or she is wonderful. Some parents go further. They become so blinded by adoration they managed to convince themselves their child has qualities of genius. Well, there's nothing very wrong with all of this. It's the way of the world. It is only when the parents begin telling us about the brilliance of their own revolting offspring that we start shouting, Bring us a basin! We're going to be sick. School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents. But they used to get their own back when the time comes to write the end of term reports. If I were a teacher, I would cook up some real scorches for the Children of doting parents. Your son, Maximilian, I would write, is a total washout. I hope you have a family business you can push him into when he leaves school, because he sure as heck wouldn't get a job anywhere else. Where if I were feeling lyrical, that Diane Mott rot. It is a curious truth that grasshoppers have the hearing organs in the sides of the abdomen. Your daughter Vanessa, judging by what she's learned this term, has no hearing organs at all. I might even delved deeper into natural history and say the periodical cicada send six sees as a grub underground and no more than six days is a free spirit of sunlight. Name your son. Wilfred has spent six years as a grub in this school, and we're still waiting for him to emerge from the chrysalis. A particularly poisonous little girl might sting me into saying Fiona has the same glacial beauty is an iceberg, but unlike the iceberg, she has absolutely nothing below the surface. I think I might enjoy writing end of term reports for the Stingers in my class, but enough of that, we have to get on