Roald Dahl was everything when I was growing up and along with popular classics such as James and the Giant Peach and Witches I loved Esio Trot, what can I say I’ve always had a thing for tortoises; they’re just too cute!
To celebrate the release of Esio Trot on DVD we were invited along to the Roald Dahl museum in Great Missenden – Boo and her friends Poppy had a great time and I absolutely loved being reminded of all the great characters who played such a big role in my childhood I can’t wait for Boo to fall in love with them as she learns to read.
The familiar tale of Esio Trot has been brought to life by director Richard Curtis with the iconic Dustin Hoffman and wonderful Judi Dench; not forgetting the hilarious James Corden.
Mr. Hoppy lives alone in his little flat in London. He has two main passions in life, his garden and Mrs. Silver who lives in the flat below. The pair often exchanges niceties but after five years shy Mr. Hoppy has never even dared to ask Mrs. Silver round for a cup of tea. Until one day when everything changes…
On the happiest day of Mrs. Silver’s life she adopts a tortoise named Alfie. Only a titchy tortoise, she fears that she will never truly be happy until Alfie gets bigger. Mr. Sliver devises a plan to help Alfie grow, and in doing so hopes that Mrs. Silver will grow to love him. He presents Mrs. Sliver with a Bedouin chant that must be read morning, noon and night. It starts to work and Alfie, slowly but surely doubles in size, or does he?
Esio Trot like all of Dahls’ tale is a wonderful world of imaginary fun and the film adaptation has done a great job in bringing this classic to life.
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Esio Trot is available now at Amazon.
Disclosure: We received a copy of Esio Trot on DVD for the purpose of this review, all opinions are our own.
I grew up on Roald Dahl stories. Trying to narrow down to one would be too hard. I love The BFG, Esio Trot, George’s Marvellous Medicine and The Twits. I’m sure there must be others too!
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Loved Matilda the book more than the film, Roald Dahl was a brilliant story teller for children, he seemed to make sense.
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My favourite is actually Esio Trot! We have a tortoise and love him to bits 🙂
George’s Marvellous Medicine x
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when i was little it was always the BFG but love most of them this was a fab watch we loved it x
We like Matilda
I loved the twits
Matilda – wonderful book, a lovely read.
I absolutely adore Matilda x
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