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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 and, Quentin Blake

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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?

‘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!

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Reviews

26 Feb 2025

Great so many tortoises. And love the challenge of reading backwards

23 Jan 2025

This is a fiction book. This story is about an old man and a woman who had a tortoise. The old bought lots of different tortoises until they got bigger and bigger. Then he swapped the lady's tortoise every week with a higher one.

I would ask my friends to read this book because you will find out about all the tortoises.

15 Sep 2024

My favourite character was the tortoise because he was very cute and mysterious . The book was a fun read but they coukd have a little bit more to it

08 Sep 2024

The moment I finished this story, I was moved to tears! I thought this was the sweetest story I have ever read. It was a really moving love story that involved a cute tortoise bringing together two neighbours in the funniest way possible!

08 Sep 2024

It’s funny. I liked that the man bought 100 tortoises.

07 Sep 2024

I thought it was funny

06 Sep 2024

I loved this book because it is about a man who is looking for a wife and likes his upstairs neighbour

02 Sep 2024

The most interesting part was that Mr Hoppy has bought more 5000 tortoises to marry Mrs Silver. I imagined if I have 5000 of pet I would struggle a lot with feeding, putting them to sleep and walking them.

02 Sep 2024

Mr Hoppy was very clever

01 Sep 2024

I liked that Esio trot is spelled backwards.

30 Aug 2024

I really like it because the pictures were fun.

29 Aug 2024

I liked it when Mr Hoppy got Alfie with the tortoise-catcher

28 Aug 2024

I really like the way that the word tortoise is changed to Esio Trot.

26 Aug 2024

I liked the bit where Mr hoppy gets all the tortoises!

24 Aug 2024

I loved Mr Hoppy in this book, he had lots of good ideas!

23 Aug 2024

I think the story was

I think the story was nice because it was funny.

21 Aug 2024

Good

20 Aug 2024

I loved this book about the tortoise

18 Aug 2024

Because I like the tortoise catcher

17 Aug 2024

I loved he tried so hard to get her to fall in love with him and how he bought many many turtles and the book was funny and enjoyable

16 Aug 2024

I enjoyed when Mr Hoppy and Mrs Silver got married. Mrs Silver wanted her tortoise, Alfie, to grow faster and asked Mr Hoppy if he can help. The book was fiction. I want to recommend it to someone else.

16 Aug 2024

Super Book, lovely story, kept us hooked

16 Aug 2024

it was good because they tricked echover.

15 Aug 2024

My favourite part is when the tortoise switch places

15 Aug 2024

I was so full of laughter when he (mr hoppy) tricks his love .But the way they got married was the most beautiful and sweet thing I’ve heard in the whole entire book of the series

14 Aug 2024

Clever story.

13 Aug 2024

Really funny!

12 Aug 2024

I recommend

11 Aug 2024

My favourite character was Alfie.

08 Aug 2024

I liked what happened in the story and the way the characters were acting.

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