Esio Trot

He was shy, she loved her tortoise, and the plan he came up with was quite possibly the silliest act of devotion ever attempted.

Mr Hoppy has been in love with his downstairs neighbour Mrs Silver for years — but she only ever talks about her tortoise, Alfie. So Mr Hoppy devises a wonderfully absurd scheme involving magic words (said backwards), 140 tortoises, and rather a lot of patience to make himself the hero of her world.

Esio Trot is Dahl in miniature — a perfect little comedy about love, longing and the lengths people go to when they're too nervous to just say how they feel. It's brief, it's warm, and it has the most genuinely charming ending in his entire catalogue.

Lovely for newly confident readers as a first proper Dahl, and quietly irresistible for anyone who appreciates a love story that involves a great many tortoises.

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NOTE FROM TALESGALORE

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This book is for you if you love

• Chapter Books
• Classic
• Funny
• Roald Dahl
• Romance
• Tortoise