Did your head get bigger, daddy?" asked Matilda. rough supper. her father. He bad to keep his hat on all Later, his wife watched him as he went round he bedroom in his purple pyjamas with his hat on his head, and ght"How unid he looks! In the he hat oft hair own to the skin, which left a white ring and bits of brown hat round his head. You must try to get them off, daddy, Matilda said to him at breakfast. They look like little brown flies! "Be quiet!" shouted her father. It was quiet for about a week after this. Then one evening Mr Wormwood arrived home from the garage with a face as dark and angry as a storm cloud. Matilda was reading in a corner of the living room. Mr Wormwood switched the TV on to the noisiest programme that he could find, then looked angrily at his daughter Don't you ever stop reading?" he shouted at her. Did you have a good day, daddy?" she asked nicely What's this stupid book?" he said, and pulled it out of her hands. "It isn't stupid, daddy' said Matilda. It's about I don't want to know what it's about, shouted Mr Wormwood. Go and find something useful to do And he began to pull the pages out of the book Matilda was frightened. "That's a library book!" she said. I have to return it to Mrs Phelps. Then you'll have to buy a new one for your dear Mrs Phelps, won't you?' said her father. He dropped the last few pages on to the floor and walked out of the room. Matilda did not cry. She sat very still for several minutes. A inside her head Bur an important guestion