Quentin Blake’s depictions of Matilda as an explorer and astrophysicist highlight how slow progress is in the real world
Quentin Blake’s new illustrations for the covers of Matilda, celebrating 30 years of the book, provoke a mixture of emotions, simultaneously empowering and bittersweet. On the one hand, it is glorious to see Matilda at 30, taking on the role of explorer, astrophysicist, or running the British Library. We need to see that happening. It makes us all reflect on what an intelligent, imaginative and industrious girl ought to be able to be. So why is it also just a tiny bit unsettling? Why does a part of us not want to know what Matilda has become? Somewhere in our heart of hearts we never want Matilda to grow up – we want her to be like Peter Pan, eternally young.
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