Esio+Trot

**[|Click for the source!] Julia Song Roald Dahl is like the best writer I would think of among those of children’s books. He was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. He spent his childhood in England and worked in Africa at the age of eighteen. The time when he started to write was since he moved to Washington D.C. and he began his career of writing books for children in 1960, living in England with his family. The book, “Esio Trot” is an easy book for children that contains both texts and illustrated pictures. And the title simply means the oppositely labeled word ‘Tortoise.’ It’s a story about an old and shy man, Mr. Hoppy, falling love into this gorgeous middle-aged woman, Mrs. Silver, and accomplishing to ask her to marry him with an incident between Mrs. Silver’s little tortoise named Alfie. Mr. Hoppy, who is too shy to express himself of his secret love towards Mrs. Silver, and Mrs. Silver, who he has loved for several years, only communicate to each other by him looking down his balcony and her looking up her balcony since he lives one floor upstairs her. One day, with Mrs. Silver being hopeless about Alfie and his almost still size of body grown ever since she had him, Mr. Hoppy decides to make her happy to offer a tricky, impossible magic that would make Alfie grow by the fall of Mrs. Silver saying “I’ll be your slave for life! (21).” The magic he taught Mrs. Silver goes like this; ** ESIO TROT, ESIO TROT, ** ** TEG REGGIB REGGIB! ** ** EMOC NO, ESIO TROT, ** ** WORG PU, FFUP PU, TOOHS PU! ** ** GNIRPS PU, WOLB PU, LLEWS PU! ** ** EGROG! ELZZUG! FFUTS! PLUG! ** ** TUP NO TAF, ESIO TROT, TUP NO TAF! ** ** TEG NO, TEG NO! ELBBOG DOOF! ** which is actually interpreted as; ** TORTOISE, TORTOISE, ** ** GET BIGGER BIGGER! ** ** COMEON, TORTOISE, ** ** GROW UP, PUFF UP, SHOOT UP! ** ** SPRING UP, BLOW UP, SWELL UP! ** ** GORGE! GUZZLE! STUFF! GULP! ** ** PUT ON FAT, TORTOISE, PUT ON FAT! ** ** GET ON, GET ON! GOBBLE FOOD! ** Also with Mr. Hoppy’s efforts of looking for 140 tortoises of different sizes but of the same dots of Alfie’s shells, and with his magic, the dream that he always wishes is right infront of him. The woman’s astounded heart would take its own path through her tortoise. I really like the book because in spite of its lack of thickness unlike those adults’ book, the story contains very interesting plot with its jolly development throughout the book. As I have mentioned, I always loved how Roald Dahl writes and describes short, but deeply impressive contents. I recommend this book to everyone below and above my reading skills because not only the book is fantastic with its plot, but the book is for both children and adults who may want to take a break and have a great resting time with a book making their day!
 * Esio Trot **
 * by. Roald Dahl