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|title=Esio Trot
|author=Roald Dahl
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=64
|publisher=Puffin Books
|date=April 2001
|isbn=0141311339
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Y'know, I can remember Mrs Mendoza reading from Roald Dahl to the class just as though it were yesterday. I remember laughing. I remember all of us laughing. And I remember writing my own story. I called it Lucy and the Beggar! In it, I wanted my hair to grow as long as Rapunzel's hair. Mrs Mendoza was a great teacher. She was inspirational. And so was Roald Dahl. And so were his wonderful books.
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|name=Magda
|verb=said
|comment= You know, I don't share these authoritarian criticisms of Dahl either, but there is something about most of his books that I dislike - a guey, gross, sticky gruesomness? I suspect it might be as simple as the fact that they often seem to contain the motif of eating people and I have a hangup about famines & real acts of caniballism.
And who would guess that I like Matilda the best :-)
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{{comment
|name=Jill
|verb=replied
|comment= Well, get used to him, cos he's about the best you're going to get among the ranks of the "supporting readers" you get in the home-school reading programmes!
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{{comment
|name=Magda
|verb=said
|comment= Oh, I like Dahl, it's just there is something about him that bothers me and it's not the bad adults & authority questioning.
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{{comment
|name=joolzcook
|verb=said
|comment= My daughter is a BIG Dahl fan and loves this book as much as all the others. His writing has helped inspire her to want to be an author - and she is only 8!!
As an adult who reads these aloud to my children too, Dahl books are a delight to read!
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{{comment
|name=ricki_13_pink
|verb=said
|comment= I loved this book, It was fuuny and I just did not want to put it down! Dahl is one of my favorite authors!
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