“Can I help you, Matilda?” she asked. “I'm wondering what to read next,” Matilda said. “I've finished all the children's books.”
“You mean you've looked at the pictures?” “Yes, but I've read the books as well.”
Mrs Phelps looked down at Matilda from her great height and Matilda looked right back up at her.
“I thought some were very poor,” Matilda said, “but others were lovely. I liked The Secret Garden best of all.”
“It was full of mystery. The mystery of the room behind the closed door and the mystery of the garden behind the big wall.”
Mrs Phelps was stunned. “Exactly how old are you, Matilda?” she asked.
“Four years and three months,” Matilda said. Mrs Phelps was more stunned than ever, but she had the sense not to show it.
“What sort of a book would you like to read next?” she asked.
Matilda said, “I would like a really good one that grown-ups read. A famous one. I don't know any names.”
Mrs Phelps looked along the shelves, taking her time. She didn't quite know what to bring out.
How, she asked herself, does one choose a famous grown-up book for a four-year-old girl?
Her first thought was to pick a young teenager's romance of the kind that is written for fifteen-year-old schoolgirls,
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