Matilda loves science & inventing Her heroes are Marie Curie Leonardo da Vinci & Thomas Edison & one day she wants to be a famous inventor herself So when she doesn't win the school science fair she's devastated
- especially as the judges didn't believe she'd come up with her entry on her own Because she's a girl When Matilda shares her woes with her Grandma Joss she's astonished to learn her grandma was once a scientist herself
- an astrophysicist who discovered her very own planet Trouble is Grandma Joss was also overlooked
- her boss Professor Smocks stole her discovery for himself & he's about to be presented with a Nobel Prize Matilda concocts a plan They'll crash the award ceremony & tell everyone the truth! So begins a race against time
- & against Matilda's strict mum & dad!
- on a journey through Paris Hamburg & Stockholm & on which they encounter a famous film star a circus & a wanted diamond thief