The Twits By Roald Dahl
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The Twits: The Story Of A VERY Gruesome Couple
This is one of Dahl's most vile and appalling stories but children will love it and it makes a wonderful book for parents to read with their kids.
This lens outlines the story of The Twits, describes Mr and Mrs Twit as well as information on other aspects of the book.
Have You Read The Twits?
The Twits
The Twits is one of those books that book lovers, young or old, MUST read. Do yourself a favour and get a copy, you will read it in one go and then want to read it again.
The Twits
Amazon Price: $3.04 (as of 02/17/2012)
Full of delightfully revolting characters and events to make children giggle and parents snigger, this is one of the best children's books ever written and is perfect for parents to read to their kids. I loved it as a 7-year old and still love it as a 38-year old.
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The Story
The Twits' tale
The story begins by describing what vile and disgusting creatures the Twits are and the horrible tricks they play upon each other. However, their most awful schemes are saved for their pet monkeys and the local wild bird population.The Muggle-wumps are a family of captive monkeys who are tormented by the Twits and forced to stand on their heads for the pleasure of the hideous pair. The local birds are the victims of Mr Twit's glue, ending up in his daily bird pie. However, one day a Roly-poly bird arrives and the monkeys and birds get their revenge on the Twits by tricking them into thinking that they were upside down and getting them to stand on their heads with glue upon them so that they end up glued to the ground and eventually disappear.
Horrible, nauseating, cruel and dirty: kids love it.
Mr Twit
A filthy fusspot
Mr Twit has the most disgusting beard in history with all sorts of putrid food items stuck within it. So vile is Mr Twit that he occasionally digs into this filthy larder to eat scraps of fish, cornflakes and cheese! For some reason, Mr Twit thinks that his horrible hairy beard makes him look dignified.Mr Twit loves to eat bird pie! He goes out every day to apply glue to a tree in his garden and unfortunate birds get stuck on it and get pput into the pie. Spaghetti is another of his favourites and he so relishes it that he doesn't even notice when Mrs Twit puts worms in his helping of the meal. Disgusting Mr twit also drinks beer at breakfast and even considers eating some boys that get stuck on his bird glue.
Mr Twit enjoys playing cruel tricks on his wife, on one occasion putting a frog in her bed and telling her that it was a giant skillywiggler come to bite off her toes. Another of Mr Twits terrible tricks was to glue ticny pieces of wood to her walking stick every day so as to make it slightly longer. This tricks Mrs Twit into thinking that she is shrinking but Mr Twit offers a solution; use helium-filled balloons to lift her while her feet are tied to the ground, thus stretching her!!!! Evetually Mr Twit cuts the rope and Mrs Twit floats away.
Horrible.
Kids can have fun making a "Mr Twit's beard" here; Mr Twit's Beard.
Mrs Twit
A wicked wench
Mrs Twit is the perfect wife for Mr Twit; hideously ugly, miserable, unhygienic and cruel. Mrs Twit was once a pretty girl but a lifetime of thinking ugly thoughts turned her into perhaps the world's ugliest beast of a woman. Mrs Twit has one good eye and one glass eye which she removes to scare people and as if that wasn't enough she always carries a cane which she uses to hit unsuspecting children and animals.Mrs Twit enjoys playing horrible tricks on her husband just as much as her loves playing them on him and a couple recounted in the tale are the serving of spaghetti laced with worms and placing her glass eye in Mr Twit's beer.
Disgusting.
Mr & Mrs Twit Figurines
These great Mr and Mrs Twit figurines can be purchased for £24.99 each from Rock Sensations.
The Illustrations From The Twits
The wonderful illustrations for Roald Dahl's The Twits were drawn by Quentin Blake who formed a famous partnership with Dahl, illustrating many of his books with his instantly recognisable style. Blake's drawings, for this tale, perfectly capture the vileness of the dastardly Twits, the innocence of the Muggle Wump monkey family and the vigour of the Roly-Poly Bird. Whilst Roald Dahl was one of the best children's authors of all time, his books would not be what they are without Quentin Blake's artwork.Here are a few illustrations from the books.
The Twits Badge
For those that want to adorn themselves with the repulsive pair of The Twits, this badge is available from ByeGolly.co.uk.
The Twits: A Play
Put on your own version of the The Twits following this scripted play.
The Twits: A Set of Plays
Amazon Price: $1.66 (as of 02/17/2012)
This short Roald Dahl book is perfect for adaptation into play format and children will love to be involved in performing this revolting children's tale, taking parts such as Mr and Mrs Twit, Mugglewump the monkey and the Roly-poly Bird.
What do you think of The Twits?
Most children love the disgusting and rude characters that Roald Dahl created but with some parents they are not so popular. What do you think?
Are The Twits wonderfully revolting villians or too disgusting for children?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byWonderfully Revolting
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im roald dahl fan :)
Posted September 17, 2010
nickupton says:
Yes, I loved all of Dahl's revolting characters, The Twits, Grandma in George's Marvellous Medicine, The Trunchbull in Matilda, The bad giants in BFG and the Grand High Witch in The Witches.
Posted June 11, 2009
Too Disgusting
Los Cretinos
Los Cretinos = The Twits (Infantil) (Spanish Edition)
Amazon Price: $5.39 (as of 02/17/2012)
Los Cretinos is the Spanish language version of Roald Dahl's superb book about the pair of disgusting people who enjoy inflicting unhappiness on each other.
Some More Interesting Pages About The Twits By Roald Dahl
Funtrivia - Twits Quiz
Quizzes about The Twits.
The Twits by Roald Dahl
The Wikipedia entry for The Twits.
Twits Wordsearch
A wordsearch puzzle based on vocabulary from the book, "The Twits".
The Twits Review
A short book review of Roald Dahl's, "The Twits".
Is The Twits The Best?
Twits Mousepad
Are these the birds that Mr Twit is trying to catch with his glue? They certainly look like some of the birds from The Twits and with a giant speech bubble to that effect I have included it here for Twits fans to see.Click on the photo or the link here to take a closer look - Twits Birds Mousepad.
Other Books By Roald Dahl
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These five books by Roald Dahl are also exceptional stories for children. The Witches, Matilda and George's Marvellous Medicine are full of horrible characters and disgusting events in a similar way to The Twits.
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christopherwell
Oct 6, 2011 @ 6:40 am | delete
- Nice lens! I love Roald Dahl, so I'll have to check this book out.
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JeanJohnson
Jul 16, 2011 @ 2:47 pm | delete
- I haven't yet read this book but we have several other books by this author, I will need to get this one, it sounds like a good read.
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Mar 28, 2011 @ 7:59 pm | delete
- Enjoyable Squidoo. Really love reading other thoughts abroad. Chris
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Laddoo
Oct 12, 2010 @ 6:50 am | delete
- a lovely review! Blessed by a Squid Angel and featured on my Spreading the Angel Dust Lens
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nickupton
Oct 12, 2010 @ 6:56 am | delete
- Thank you very much.
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George's Marvelous Medicine
George's Marvelous Medicine
Amazon Price: $3.82 (as of 02/17/2012)
Disgustingly gruesome in exactly the same way as The Twits, this is a really funny story of a boy left alone with his horrible grandmother. Hilarious!
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Matilda
Amazon Price: $3.59 (as of 02/17/2012)
Another Roald Dahl novel in the same vein as The Twits, featuring a magical girl, a lovely teacher and the villainous Trunchbull. This is a wonderful story for kids and adults to enjoy together.
