Empowerment Female characters Positive role model Relationships School
The Matilda effect
Summary:
Matilda is a keen scientist and inventor and loves creating new inventions. When someone else is given credit for Matilda’s entry at the school science fair, Matilda is determined to resolve the issue.
Edited by:
Dublin City University
Author(s):
Irving, Ellie
Publisher:
Corgi Books
City:
London
Year:
2017
Pages:
306
ISBN:
9780552568371
Age Range:
6 - 10
Language:
EN
Original Language:
EN
Keywords:
Empowerment, Female characters, Positive role model, Relationships, School
Comment:
Matilda’s interests in science and her investigative spirit are traits often absent in books with young girls as their main character. When Matilda begins to investigate the injustice of her work not being properly recognised at the school science fair, she finds out her grandmother was overlooked for a prestigious award many years previous and so there is an intergenerational dimension to the injustices to female scholars.