But the book's length and subtle humor make it less suitable for beginning readers. Read 2,318 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Adults and older children will appreciate Dahl's superior storytelling skills, and will chuckle at Blake's animated, cartoony drawings. Hoppy has leaned over his balcony rail to gaze longingly at Mrs. Hoppy, are backward creatures that ``can only understand words that are written backwards,'' his exhortation to the pet begins ``Esio Trot''-which is ``tortoise'' reversed.) It is a happy Hoppy who gets all the credit-and Mrs. Viking Childrens Books, 16.99 (64pp) ISBN 978-1-8. Mr Hoppy really loves his neighbour Mrs Silver, and Mrs Silver really loves her tortoise, Alfie. Hoppy devises an elaborate scheme to make her think the tortoise is growing. Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the Worlds number one storyteller This is the wonderful and warm-hearted Roald Dahl classic, Esio Trot. Silver tells her neighbor that she will be his ``slave for life'' if he can find a way to make Alfie grow, the determined Mr. Mr Hoppy, a shy, ageing American plant lover, lives in the flat above Mrs Silver, a rather ebullient retired midwife who buys a tortoise for company.

Although the creature seems content, his devoted owner is concerned because he has gained a mere three ounces in the 11 years she has owned him. But all of her attention and affection is showered upon her pet tortoise, Alfie. Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot is the story of burgeoning love between two pensioners the shy and quiet Mr Hoppy (Dustin Hoffman) and the outgoing-but-dim Mrs Silver (Judi Dench).

This celebrated, splendidly matched author-illustrator team here present a 64-page love story that is equally sweet and silly.

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