ESIO TROT

ROALD DAHL ; illus Quentin Blake

ISBN 10: 0140347283 / ISBN 13: 9780140347289

Published by PUFFIN BOOKS Jonathan Cape, 27 Wrights Lane, London, England, 375 Hudson Street, New York, USA, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia, 1, 1991

About this Item

64pp, 5 x 7 inches, 90201.

Seller Inventory # sh2425

Bibliographic Details

• Title: ESIO TROT
• Publisher: PUFFIN BOOKS Jonathan Cape, 27 Wrights Lane, London, England, 375 Hudson Street, New York, USA, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia, 1
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140347283
• ISBN 13: 9780140347289
• Binding: Softcover
• Illustrator: Quentin Blake
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Roald Dahl

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Synopsis

Mr Hoppy is in love with Mrs Silver. but Mrs Silver has eyes only for Alfie, her pet tortoise. How can he ever compete with such a rival? He comes up with a plan to win his lady's love, involving some riddles and a whole army of tortoises. By the author of "The BFG", "The Witches" and "Matilda".

About the Author

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to 'a wonderful faraway place'. In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children's books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.
 
The BFG is dedicated to the memory of Roald Dahl's eldest daughter, Olivia, who died from measles when she was seven – the same age at which his sister had died (fron appendicitis) over forty years before.
 
Quentin Blake, the first Children’s Laureate of the United Kingdom, has illustrated most of Roald Dahl’s children’s books.