Esio Trot
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By Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake
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771 reviews
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This is the wonderful and warm-hearted Roald Dahl classic, Esio Trot.
Mr Hoppy really loves his neighbour Mrs Silver, and Mrs Silver really loves her tortoise, Alfie. One day Mrs Silver asks Mr Hoppy how to make Alfie grow, and suddenly Mr Hoppy knows the way to win her heart. With the help of a magical spell and some cabbage leaves, can Mr Hoppy be happy at last?
And now you can listen to ESIO TROT ( with THE GIRAFFE AND THE PELLY AND ME) and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet and Steven Fry – plus there are added squelchy sound effects from Pinewood Studios!
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I have read this book to survive boredom, and no doubt it was the best choice I had ever made!Poor Alfie he got replaced by other turtles by Mr Hoppy and at the end when Mr. Hoppy proposed to Mrs Silver the turtle that replaced Alfie go to live with Mr Hobby and Mrs.Silver because Mr. Silver never realised Alfie was owned by another family
Was okay
Good to make people happy
I enjoyed reading this book, especially when Mrs Silver, Mr Hoppy and the tortoise live happily ever after.
Funny because tortoise language is backwards
I would recommend this book as I couldn’t put it down and read it in a day.
My favourite part was when Mr Happy let changing the tortoises when Mrs Silver was out.
It was fiction but could be a real story. I liked a little tortoise called Alfie the most. He was cute and friendly. I would recommend my friend to read this book.
Would definitely recommend it to someone else
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Great and funny
I have a pet a tortoise so I loved it
I liked Alfie who was the original tortoise. I found it funny that Mr Hoppy kept switching the tortoises when Mrs Silver just wanted Alfie to get bigger.
I liked the wedding at the end
I like alfie
I liked that it was a bit funny.
This an all-time classic by the best author ever. I really enjoyed the tense moment of the tortoise swapping.
The three main characters are Mr Hoppy, Mrs Silver and Alfie the tortoise. Mrs Silver wants Alfie to grow bigger, so Mr Hoppy gives her a spell written in tortoise language, which is normal English backwards. I think Mr Hoppy was right to trick Mrs Silver because they were both happy in the end. Mr Hoppy married Mrs Silver, whom he loved, and Mrs Silver got the big tortoise she wanted.
Mr Hoppy buys hundreds of tortoises and makes a tool called the tortoise catcher. He swaps Alfie for a bigger tortoise. I like Mr Hoppy because he knows everything about tortoises.
I think this is one of the best classics ever read so I thought this was a great thing for the summer reading challenge as my last book
I enjoy reading Roald Dahl books and would recommend this one as it is nice and short
I liked Alfie the turtle the best because he kept on eating lettuce
I liked that Mr Hoppy and Mrs Silver got married, that was basically it. I didn’t like the fact that Esio Trot was just a poem, I thought the tortoise would be called Esio Trot, it was confusing. I would not recommend it to other people.
Loved the story from start to finish and the comic moments throughout!
Didn’t really enjoy this book
I have enjoyed it because it is funny but also sneaky how Mr Hoppy switches the tortoises around
I liked the tortoise language
My favourite character was Alfie. It was a love story between mr hoppy and mes silver. I enjoyed the backwards spellings of some words .
It was good, I liked it because it was funny, my favourite character was Mr Hoppy because he kept changing other characters Tortoises
I liked it when Mr Hoppy got loads of tortoises in his living room.
I really liked this story. I found it interesting and liked how many tortoise were in the story.