From Publishers Weekly
This celebrated, splendidly matched author-illustrator team here
present a 64-page love story that is equally sweet and silly. For
years, Mr. Hoppy has leaned over his balcony rail to gaze longingly
at Mrs. Silver, who lives one floor below him. But all of her
attention and affection is showered upon her pet tortoise, Alfie.
Although the creature seems content, his devoted owner is concerned
because he has gained a mere three ounces in the 11 years she has
owned hi
內容簡介：
Mr Hoppy, a retired bachelor, harbours a secret passion for
the attractive widow Mrs Silver. Unfortunately she lavishes all her
affection on another ...Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr Hoppy''s wildly
ingenious plot to defeat his rival and win the love of his lady
will delight and amaze, involving as it does a cryptic riddle and
no fewer than 140 tortoises, large and small. -Mr Hoppy, a retired
bachelor, harbours a secret passion for his neighbour, the lovely
Mrs Silver. Unfortunately she lavishes all her affection on
another...Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr Hoppy''s wildly ingenious plot
to defeat his rival and win the love of his lady will delight and
amaze, involving, as it does a cryptic riddle and no fewer than a
hundred and forty tortoises, large and small.
關於作者：
Roald Dahl 1916-1990 was born in Llandaff,
South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were
Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in
Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job
that would take him to ''a wonderful faraway place''. In 1933 he
joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa.
When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in
1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started
to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for
children was in 1964. Thereafter his children''s books brought him
increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world
over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many
years.
The BFG is dedicated to the memory of Roald Dahl''s eldest
daughter, Olivia, who died from measles when she was seven – the
same age at which his sister had died fron appendicitis over
forty years before.
Quentin Blake, the first Children’s Laureate of the United
Kingdom, has illustrated most of Roald Dahl’s children’s books.
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