Esio Trot

Name: Esio Trot
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Roald Dahl
ISBN: 9780593683583

Author: Roald Dahl

Narrator: Geoffrey Palmer

Unabridged: 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 02/14/2023

Categories: Children's Fiction, Animal Stories, Children's Humor, Action & Adventure Stories

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG!

Mr. Hoppy is in love with his neighbor, Mrs. Silver; but she is in love with someone else—Alfie, her pet tortoise. With all her attention focused on Alfie, Mrs. Silver doesn’t even know Mr. Hoppy is alive. And Mr. Hoppy is too shy to even ask Mrs. Silver over for tea. Then one day Mr. Hoppy comes up with a brilliant idea to get Mrs. Silver's attention. If Mr. Hoppy's plan works, Mrs. Silver will certainly fall in love with him. After all, everyone knows the way to a woman’s heart is through her tortoise.

About The Author

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. He spent his childhood in England and, at age eighteen, went to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. When World War II broke out, he joined the Royal Air Force and became a fighter pilot. At the age of twenty-six he moved to Washington, D.C., and it was there he began to write. His first short story, which recounted his adventures in the war, was bought by The Saturday Evening Post, and so began a long and illustrious career.After establishing himself as a writer for adults, Roald Dahl began writing children’s stories in 1960 while living in England with his family. His first stories were written as entertainment for his own children, to whom many of his books are dedicated.Roald Dahl is now considered one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Although he passed away in 1990, his popularity continues to increase as his fantastic novels, including James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The BFG, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, delight an ever-growing legion of fans.Learn more about Roald Dahl on the official Roald Dahl Web site: www.roalddahl.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on September 05, 2020

I sometimes wish I could live in Roald Dahl's stories. While there are cruel people and poverty, there is almost always justice doled out to those who do wrong and meet out cruelty. Would that only be true in the everyday world. Plus add cheeky talking animals and there is a sense of things resolvin......more

Goodreads review by Denise on March 20, 2024

This was just alright. The best was Mr. Fox but even he turns out to be a thief but it's alright because it's to feed his starving family & the rest were disturbing in their own way and is that because my adult brain is reading it differently than a child? Yes of course, but you have a brutish kille......more

Goodreads review by Mariah Roze on May 25, 2017

Includes: - Fantastic Mr Fox - Esio Trot - The Enormous Crocodile - The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me I am still in the year of reading Roald Dahl. My goal is to read every Roald Dahl book, that I can get my hands on in 2017. I also have a book buddy who is doing it with me! Fantastic Mr. Fox: This was not......more

Goodreads review by Tom on February 08, 2014

This collection of stories written by Roald Dahl contains Fantastic Mr. Fox, Esio Trot, The Enormous Crocodile, and The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me with each story narrated by a different reader. The stories are all highly imaginative and definitely targeted to young children. The stories and their......more

Goodreads review by Casey on March 13, 2017

omg, what even were those stories?? Drunk foxes, old men entrapping younger women, stupid children/dumber than dumb crocodiles and then...animal window washers and a pelican beak like no other??......more