Hello Again Book Lovers!!!
I've just finished my third book for the Bout of Books ReadAThon and it was Esio Trot by Roald Dahl. This is a super quick read and only took me around 20 minutes to complete so perfect for a ReadAThon.
Esio Trot is about a man called Mr Hoppy who lives above Mrs Silver. Mrs Silver has a little tortoise called Alfie and Mr Hoppy can't help but be a little bit jealous of Alfie. You see, Mr Hoppy loves Mrs Silver and is jealous of the lack of attention he gets and the huge amount of attention Alfie gets!
One day Mrs Silver is talking to Mr Hoppy about Alfie and tells him he wishes he would grow faster. Now tortoises don't grow very fast anyway however Mrs Silver feels sorry for Alfie as he seems to be a lot smaller than the other tortoises his age.
So Mr Hoppy comes up with a plan to 1. Make Mrs Silver think Alfie is growing...and 2. To make Mrs Silver think he is the most wonderful man in the world!
This is such a funny and sweet story and you can't help but love the personalities of these characters. Although at some points I thought Mr Hoppy was being a bit sly to Mrs Silver and making her look stupid, I couldn't help but think he was only doing this because he loved her so much and wanted to be with her. How sweet is that!
I also loved Alfie and even though he wasn't described too much really, the illustrations of him were so sweet and really helped bring him to life more.
I loved the simplicity of this story and its perfect for a quick bedtime read for little ones as it doesn't take very long to read at all. It would also be a fun story to act out and put on silly voices for the characters which would probably entertain your children even more!
Overall I thought this story was very cute and great for younger readers. It would also be a good introduction to Roald Dahl's writing as it is much shorter than most of his other books.
Rating /5
4
Happy Reading!!!
xHannahx
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