The Twits

Dahl, Roald; Callow, Simon

ISBN 10: 0060091266 ISBN 13: 9780060091262

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens, 2002

Synopsis

The Twits are a devilishly disgusting pair who hate everything except vicious practical jokes, but when the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly Bird team up, they turn the hateful world of the Twits completely upside down.

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Review:

Roald Dahl has such an unusual first name due to fact that his parents spelt his name wrong on the Register of Births. From this non-literary background came one of the masters of children's literature.

The Twits is one of his many successful and highly entertaining books. The Twits are a couple that nobody would like to know. They are hairy, dirty, smelly and generally unpleasant. Roald Dahl's characters are possibly the most horrid people you will ever read about. Mr and Mrs Twit spend their days inventing new ways to be be nasty to each other. Each time Mrs Twit does something bad to Mr Twit, he just invents something worse to do to her. The Twits are not only unpleasant towards each other but they also hate animals. It is because of the Twits' attitude towards animals that we see their really awful side: Mr Twit keeps a family of monkeys that have to spend their days upside down and Mrs Twit likes to make pies with freshly caught birds.

Dahl's story, as is characteristic with all his books, has a happy ending. Only how will the animals beat the Twits? --Jon Smith

Review:

"Do any Dahl books need recommending? . . . The Twits is funny, enjoyable - with a spooky insight to grown-ups" (Tony Ross Big Issue London)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060091266
• ISBN 13: 9780060091262
• Binding: Audio Cassette