Danny Nightingale (novel)

Danny Nightingale is a novel by Roald Dahl with illustrations by Yoshihiko Umakoshi. It was published in December 1992, two years after Dahl's death in November 1990, and is the author's final work of literature. The story is a prequel to Dahl's 1988 novel, Matilda, and features Danny Nightingale, a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and his time in school run by the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull.