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Synopsis
With filthy hair all over his face and horrid plots growing in his mind, Mr Twit is one of the nastiest people you will ever have the misfortune to meet, and Mrs Twit is just as bad and twice as ugly! But they don't stop at tricking each other: neighbouring children and even the local birds are in danger, and that's where Muggle-Wump and his family come in. They have had enough of the Twits' tricks, and with the help of the Roly-Poly bird, they decide it's time for sweet revenge . . .
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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
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"Do any Dahl books need recommending? . . . The Twits is funny, enjoyable - with a spooky insight to grown-ups" (Tony Ross Big Issue London)
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0224018558
- ISBN 13 9780224018555
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages80
- IllustratorBlake Quentin
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