The absolutely fabulous Joanna Lumley reads two of Roald Dahl's touching tales, Esio Trot and The Minpins, for this unabridged audiobook edition. Esio Trot is Dahl's wonderful, warm-hearted story about Mr Hoppy, Mrs Silver and the tortoise who brings them together. In The Minpins, Little Billy doesn't really believe there are monsters in the wood, but the tiny minpins are real enough and their miniature world is in danger.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 7-9 years.

This book was published in 2008 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .

Roald Dahl was born in Wales of Norwegian parents the child of a second marriage. His father and elder sister died when Roald was just three. His mother was left to raise two stepchildren and her own four children. Roald was her only son. He had an unhappy time at school and this influenced his writing greatly. He once said that what distinguished him from most other childrens writers was this business of remembering what it was like to be young. Many of his books have been turned into films - Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, The Witches, James and The Giant Peach, Esia Trot, Fantastic Mr Fox. Roalds childhood and schooldays are the subject of his autobiography Boy. https://www. roalddahl. com/