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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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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?

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!

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

04 Aug 2026

I have enjoyed it because it is funny but also sneaky how Mr Hoppy switches the tortoises around

03 Aug 2026

I liked the tortoise language

03 Aug 2026

My favourite character was Alfie. It was a love story between mr hoppy and mes silver. I enjoyed the backwards spellings of some words .

28 Jul 2026

It was good, I liked it because it was funny, my favourite character was Mr Hoppy because he kept changing other characters Tortoises

27 Jul 2026

I liked it when Mr Hoppy got loads of tortoises in his living room.

26 Jul 2026

I really liked this story. I found it interesting and liked how many tortoise were in the story.

26 Jul 2026

I liked this book I liked how Mr Hoppy tricked Mrs Silver. I would recommend this book.

25 Jul 2026

I like it because it’s so funny

23 Jul 2026

How Mr Hoppy made him cry.

22 Jul 2026

My favourite character was Alfie the tortoise I remember Mr Hoppy building a massive claw then going to the pet shop to buy 140 tortoises and then him searching for different ounces and then Mr Hoppy use the claw to get Alfie and put down a 15 17 1921 2325 and 27 ounces

22 Jul 2026

It was hilarious.

21 Jul 2026

I loved this book it was very funny and very lovely. I love that Mr Hoppy uses different tortoises he is very clever.

19 Jul 2026

A teacher asking who knows about turtle

19 Jul 2026

This book is spectacular because my favourite author is Roald Dahl. This book is fiction and I like it so so much. I would recommend this book to someone because this book can teach the reader tortoise language.

17 Jul 2026

I really liked it

16 Jul 2026

I enjoyed this book because it had a tortoise in it so i want to read it again.

15 Jul 2026

My favourite character of the book is Mr Hoppy.It interested me because he loved a woman who had a tortoise. I'd recommend this to someone!

23 Jun 2026

Mr Hoppy loves Mrs Silver but Mrs Silver loves someone else which is a tortoise named Alfie. Everyday November Mrs Silver got Alfie’s house some hay. It was fictional, I love this book.

07 Feb 2026

I didn’t like it because it wasn’t long enough.

03 Feb 2026

It was really funny but I also got annoyed that one of the characters wasn’t understanding something quite simple. That was because a tortoise can’t grow overnight

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.

17 Jan 2026

Where he kept swapping the tortoises

08 Jan 2026

I enjoyed the part where they spoke tortoise language and everything was spelt backwards. I would recommend this book as it was a good and easy read.

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

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