For the television film based on the book, see Esio Trot (film).
Esio Trot
First UK edition
Author
Roald Dahl
Illustrator
Quentin Blake
Language
English
Genre
Children
Publisher
Jonathan Cape (UK) Viking Press (US)
Publication date
3 September 1990
Publication place
United Kingdom
Media type
Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages
62
ISBN
0-224-02786-7
OCLC
24734818
Esio Trot is a 1990 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.[1] The title is an anadrome of "tortoise". It was the last of Dahl's books to be published in his lifetime; he died just two months later.
Unlike other Dahl works (which often feature tyrannical adults and heroic/magical children), Esio Trot is the story of an aging lonely man (Mr Hoppy), trying to make a connection with a person that he has loved from afar (his widowed neighbour, Mrs Silver).[2]
In 1994, Monty Python star Michael Palin narrated the English language audiobook recording of the book.[3] In 2015 it was adapted by Richard Curtis into a BBC television film, Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, featuring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench as the couple, with James Corden narrating.[4] Geoffrey Palmer narrated a second English-language recording in 2023.[5]
^"Stories". Roald Dahl. Archived from the original on 25 December 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
^"Why we love the mischievous spirit of Roald Dahl". The Telegraph. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
^McCall, Douglas (2013). Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969-2012, 2d ed. McFarland. p. 166.
^"BBC One - Roald Dahl's Esio Trot". BBC. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
^"Esio Trot by Roald Dahl narrated by Geoffrey Palmer". Audible.com. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
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