With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she?

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: /ˈroʊ. Some of his notable works include James and the Giant Peach Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Matilda The Witches Fantastic Mr Fox The Twits George's Marvellous Medicine and The BFG. He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".