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Esio Trot

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Esio Trot by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake

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By Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake

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725 reviews

Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller!
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?

‘A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero’ – David Walliams

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, David Walliams and Steven Fry – plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios!

And look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! and HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits.

Reviews

22 Jan 2026

masae1

The story starts with a small lie, but nobody is hurt.
It shows us that some lies can be kind and make people happy.

16 Sep 2025

He was a very good trickster

09 Sep 2025

I really loved this book

07 Sep 2025

Very exciting and tortoisey!

02 Sep 2025

Loved this book, my favourite character was Alfie the tortoise. I liked the magic and people.

01 Sep 2025

I liked the happy ending when they got married

29 Aug 2025

I really like tortoise and book includes one. I really like the way that the title of the book spells tortoise backwards

28 Aug 2025

I thought the book was really fun to read

26 Aug 2025

I enjoyed this book because it was funny and sweet. Mr Hoppy wanted to help Mrs Silver and her pet tortoise, and I liked how he came up with a clever plan. My favourite part was when Alfie, the tortoise, kept “growing” because it was very silly. .

25 Aug 2025

was a bit weird, but liked the tortoise getting bigger

22 Aug 2025

I liked Mr hoppy it was a very good book.

21 Aug 2025

Mr Hoppy really likes Mrs Silver but wouldn't say it out loud.

21 Aug 2025

Would recommend this book it was really funny and a lovely ending.

19 Aug 2025

This was funny how he tricked the woman with the different tortoises. I liked how the title is tortoise spelt backwards

10 Aug 2025

I really loved the story line that it mean your never to old or too late to fall in love

08 Aug 2025

I really enjoyed reading this book

05 Aug 2025

I liked the that the turtle was very kind to every person and it made me think of you see a tortoise in the road it would be nice to save it.

04 Aug 2025

I liked how Mrs Silver and Mr Hoppy got married in the end.

03 Aug 2025

Esiot trot is a very nice story and has a great illustration even though I usually prefer action I like reading this story

02 Aug 2025

This made me happy and I’m glad the ending was happy.

01 Aug 2025

I really liked this book because it’s good and one of the characters in it got up to a really strange thing. I also liked it because it has some love in it as well.

31 Jul 2025

It was amazing!

31 Jul 2025

This was a fictional book. My favourite character was Mr Hoppy because he came up with amazing ideas to. make people happy.

31 Jul 2025

I like the pictures where Mr Hoppy popped his head out of the foilage

29 Jul 2025

The increasing and decreasing in size of tortoise was lovely and funny.

23 Jul 2025

I love how mrs sliver never finds out

22 Jul 2025

My favourite character is Mr Hoppy because he is so funny and silly. My favourite part is when Mr Hoppy goes to pet shops and buys lots of tortoises of all different sizes. I dont like the fact that the book is so short I wish it was longer.

13 Jul 2025

I liked how Mrs silver had a tortoise but
Didn’t like them marrying at the end

08 Jul 2025

The book is amazing

That is all I have to say

08 Jul 2025

I like this book because the man bought lots of tortoise so he could trick the lady that Esio Trot was getting bigger and bigger because of the note he had written. I liked that she spoke backwards. It’s was fun figuring out what she was saying because the words were backwards.

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