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The Twits
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 u
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Published
2001
by Penguin
(first published 1980)
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Twits are ugly people who do horrible things to each other and others. They are not nice, and they are negative people who have been negative so long that the negativity has made them ugly.
On Monday I was going to write a review that just said that I'm a twit. Which isn't really true, I'm generally a only a slightly negative person, bordering on neutral and I don't do things intentionally to try to cause other people harm. Sometimes I do turn incredibly negative though and then I come out swing...more
On Monday I was going to write a review that just said that I'm a twit. Which isn't really true, I'm generally a only a slightly negative person, bordering on neutral and I don't do things intentionally to try to cause other people harm. Sometimes I do turn incredibly negative though and then I come out swing...more
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Dec 03, 2010
Mariel
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5 of 5 stars
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Ratatouille
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Lester
My birds and I got into a big literary debate this morning. The book was Dahl's The Twits. Lester the Molestor maintains that I would be more delicious in a pie. My vote is for a hearty bird pie. You are what you eat. Who would want to be me? There is a big hungry gator waiting for us to decide. She said we might settle it over a scrabble game... We lost. It was Lester's fault! He doesn't know enough Q words....
I'm scared.
I swear to myself (and on a stack of bibles) that I had already reviewed T...more
I'm scared.
I swear to myself (and on a stack of bibles) that I had already reviewed T...more
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I don't know why I only gave this one two stars to begin with. I read it over and over again when I was little and thought it was great.
When I read it again, though, with my own children, they didn't seem as keen on it. It's definitely not as complex and interesting as Matilda, or James and the Giant Peach, or really any of his more famous books. It's a simple tale of two really horrible people who do horrible things and come to a horrible end. My son found it a bit boring in comparison to the...more
When I read it again, though, with my own children, they didn't seem as keen on it. It's definitely not as complex and interesting as Matilda, or James and the Giant Peach, or really any of his more famous books. It's a simple tale of two really horrible people who do horrible things and come to a horrible end. My son found it a bit boring in comparison to the...more
Rating: 7/10
The Twits is a funny tale and I loved the characters. Roald Dahl always makes me laugh with his fun short stories. The illustrations were absolutely brilliant! The mischief that Mr and Mrs. Twit get up to is hilarious, and they are such negative people its just unbelievable. So much for a loving marriage. I'd love to know how they met. Wouldnt everyone love a prequel. It was a bit sad at the end, but, eh, that's how it goes. Overall, this was a funny read and I'd definitely read it...more
The Twits is a funny tale and I loved the characters. Roald Dahl always makes me laugh with his fun short stories. The illustrations were absolutely brilliant! The mischief that Mr and Mrs. Twit get up to is hilarious, and they are such negative people its just unbelievable. So much for a loving marriage. I'd love to know how they met. Wouldnt everyone love a prequel. It was a bit sad at the end, but, eh, that's how it goes. Overall, this was a funny read and I'd definitely read it...more
Archer and I love this book! It's funny and evil and typical Dahl, it's fun to read out loud (or to yourself if you're not reading to a child) and there's an unrealized circus act full of upside-down monkeys.
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Sep 27, 2007
Medford Children's Library
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4 of 5 stars
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A less popular Dahl book, The Twits is about a nasty couple that is so horrid that their thoughts have made them ugly. They like nothing better than to play mean tricks on eachother like sticking frogs in eachother's beds. One day, their pet monkeys decide to play a trick on them to teach them a lesson! I love Ronald Dahl books. Among my favorites are the BFG and the Witches. Dahl's descriptions of the Twits along with the black and white illustrations made me laugh. Do you feel bad for the Twit...more
Oct 07, 2008
83star
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My book is The Twits the author is Roald Dahl. The illustrater is Quentin Blake.It's about two really nasty people Mr.and Mrs. Twit.Both of them catch birds to make bird pie's. Mr. Twit has all kinds of suff in his hair around his face like for example corn flakes and tinned sardine.
What I was thinking about when i was reading this book is that Mr.and Mrs.Twit were really mean . Poor little mokeys had to live with them. I could already imagen how they looked.I wonder how they made birds into p...more
What I was thinking about when i was reading this book is that Mr.and Mrs.Twit were really mean . Poor little mokeys had to live with them. I could already imagen how they looked.I wonder how they made birds into p...more
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As a kid, The Twits was never one of my favourite Dahl stories. It's all a bit grizzly with disgusting beards, trees with glue on and upside down monkeys. Great, imaginative stuff, but not really what I liked. Well, actually, the upside monkeys were okay.
As an adult, this book is brilliant. Mostly because it ticks an item off my Big Read list, and only took half an hour to finish. Actually, it's a fine little story, typical Dahl. Two quite despicable creatures are truly awful to each other and t...more
As an adult, this book is brilliant. Mostly because it ticks an item off my Big Read list, and only took half an hour to finish. Actually, it's a fine little story, typical Dahl. Two quite despicable creatures are truly awful to each other and t...more
Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
First Published: 1979 with illustrations by Blake.
My edition includes extensive, child-appealing biographies of Dahl and Blake.
While doing all this reading-aloud, I've been discussing it with my family. And it apparently inspired them. On a recent drive to their Holiday House (3 hours away) my SiL read "The Twits" to her kids. The very hard to please 6yo has asked for repeated reads. "The Twits" fits the bill as a book children want to read, that adult...more
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
First Published: 1979 with illustrations by Blake.
My edition includes extensive, child-appealing biographies of Dahl and Blake.
While doing all this reading-aloud, I've been discussing it with my family. And it apparently inspired them. On a recent drive to their Holiday House (3 hours away) my SiL read "The Twits" to her kids. The very hard to please 6yo has asked for repeated reads. "The Twits" fits the bill as a book children want to read, that adult...more
To call any Roald Dahl book “whimsical” would be a terrible understatement. Whimsical, magical, memorable, intriguing, the list goes on and on. I think the reason I have such a love for any Roald Dahl book is because they bring me back to my childhood, any of his classic books is nothing less than wonderful.
The Twits is no exception. Mr. and Mrs. Twit are terrible human beings, with ugly thoughts, ugly actions, and equally ugly appearances. They despise each other and everyone else in the world...more
The Twits is no exception. Mr. and Mrs. Twit are terrible human beings, with ugly thoughts, ugly actions, and equally ugly appearances. They despise each other and everyone else in the world...more
The Twits, was my third book from Roald Dahl and I kept right on loving his style.
The Twits are two horrible, disgusting people, who like to play mean pranks on each other and other people. Cruel to animals and just downright nasty, these are villains who you will loathe!
The imagery and description are, of course, very vivid and their appearance is just plain gruesome. Dahl uses his unique brand of humor and just the right amount of grossness, to intrigue and captivate a young child.
The writing...more
The Twits are two horrible, disgusting people, who like to play mean pranks on each other and other people. Cruel to animals and just downright nasty, these are villains who you will loathe!
The imagery and description are, of course, very vivid and their appearance is just plain gruesome. Dahl uses his unique brand of humor and just the right amount of grossness, to intrigue and captivate a young child.
The writing...more
My first book from Roald Dahl and i have to say that I am already a big fan. The Twits kept me and the Year 3 class I was working with engaged for more than a week.
The Twits is a book about an elderly couple who hate children,treat their animals horribly and spend a considerable amount of their time planning tricks to play on each other.To retell the story with few simple sentences would not do it any justice .The real power of the book is the language that the author uses to describe his charac...more
The Twits is a book about an elderly couple who hate children,treat their animals horribly and spend a considerable amount of their time planning tricks to play on each other.To retell the story with few simple sentences would not do it any justice .The real power of the book is the language that the author uses to describe his charac...more
What a great book!
Husband and Wife - The Twits are such great characters for the children to picture in their minds as the reader reads the book. Roald Dahl has peppered this book with imagery that will stay with children forever, I know that it had the same effect on me.
I found that this book was great to read aloud as it introduced many opportunities to use a wide range of expression filled voices and tones. Especially the The Twits themselves, the children loved my impressions of their two ve...more
Husband and Wife - The Twits are such great characters for the children to picture in their minds as the reader reads the book. Roald Dahl has peppered this book with imagery that will stay with children forever, I know that it had the same effect on me.
I found that this book was great to read aloud as it introduced many opportunities to use a wide range of expression filled voices and tones. Especially the The Twits themselves, the children loved my impressions of their two ve...more
The Twits by Roald Dahl is a great story about two terribly mean individuals, Mr. and Mrs. Twit. They are so mean to each other and everyone else, including animals, that they are always playing pranks and tricks on them. The Twits end up capturing birds using special glue and making bird pies. They also make the monkeys they have stand on their heads for extremely long period of time. But the Twits luck starts to run out when some revengeful birds strike back. These birds, tipped of by a monkey...more
Oh the childhood nostalgia!
Roald Dahl was the author who made me love books.I remember being seven years old and visiting the bookshop with my grandparents.Every week they would buy me a Roald Dahl book.God I finished the book in one day!How I loved Charlie and Matilda and The BFG...So when my sister grew old enough in order to teach her how to read I gave her my legacy: Roald Dahl's books.Of course she loved them as much as I did.
Today while I looked around her bookshelves I had the pleasant su...more
Roald Dahl was the author who made me love books.I remember being seven years old and visiting the bookshop with my grandparents.Every week they would buy me a Roald Dahl book.God I finished the book in one day!How I loved Charlie and Matilda and The BFG...So when my sister grew old enough in order to teach her how to read I gave her my legacy: Roald Dahl's books.Of course she loved them as much as I did.
Today while I looked around her bookshelves I had the pleasant su...more
"Mr. Twit felt that this hairiness made him look terrifically wise and grand. But in truth he was none of these things. Mr. Twit was a twit."
"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts everyday, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teet...more
"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts everyday, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teet...more
I get a little nervous reading Roald Dahl with my first grader. There are many truly cruel, mean and gross characters in his books. She was shocked in Matilda how awful the parents and teachers treated the children and in turn how disrespectful the children were. This opened a lot of discussion on the matter (and hopefully didn't give her any ideas). I wasn't looking for philosophizing at bedtime with a 6 year old so I tried to steer her clear of this book based on the description on the back. I...more
The Twits is about a rather ugly couple who like very few things in life... they dont even like each other! They are constantly playing evil tricks on each other, such as Mrs Twit putting her glass eye in Mr Twits drink, or Mr Twit making Mrs Twit worm spaghetti. They both however enjoy catching birds and making them into pies. They also own some monkeys that are kept in a cage and forced to perform tricks. However the Birds and the Monkeys hatch a plan one afternoon to seek revenge on the Twits...more
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The twits is a Roald Dahl story which starts by introducing a miserable married couple known as The Twits. The first part of the book explores all the undesirable qualities and behaviours of The Twits, from Mr Twits food-filled dirty beard, and Mrs Twits old glass eye, to cooking Bird Pie and discussing how much they hate children. When the fantastically named Roly-Poly Bird and Muggle-Wump Monkeys decide to get even with the couple, chaos unfolds, and Roald Dahl’s fantastic imaginat...more
The twits is a Roald Dahl story which starts by introducing a miserable married couple known as The Twits. The first part of the book explores all the undesirable qualities and behaviours of The Twits, from Mr Twits food-filled dirty beard, and Mrs Twits old glass eye, to cooking Bird Pie and discussing how much they hate children. When the fantastically named Roly-Poly Bird and Muggle-Wump Monkeys decide to get even with the couple, chaos unfolds, and Roald Dahl’s fantastic imaginat...more
Roald Dahl’s The Twits is a rather interesting story about the relationship between two truly gruesome individuals aptly named Mr and Mrs Twit. The Twits are two horrid characters who act appallingly to each other as well as the world around them, especially animals. The Twits seem to struggle through life by simply playing numerous tricks on one another, each trick or prank worse than the next. Not only do they make their own lives a living nightmare they capture birds using a special glue to m...more
The Twits by Roald Dahl, a classic for generations is about the revolting Mr. and Mrs. Twit, the two main characters in the story who are two smelly, cruel, unfriendly people who are married to each other but who have such ugly thoughts to each other and those around them that it makes them appear to be ugly to. They spend their days playing tricks on each other, making bird pies from the birds that they catch using their special glue and also making their monkeys stand upside down all the time....more
Keluarga Twit adalah keluarga yang mengerikan. Terdiri dari sepasang suami istri Mr dan Mrs Twit yang saling menunjukkan kasih sayang dengan mengerjai pasangannya.
Jangan dibayangkan kalau mengerjai yang saya bilang disini adalah dengan saling mengitiki pasangan masing-masing jadi tambah mesra, atau membuat makan malam kejutan supaya ikatan kasih sayang semakin mendalam.... Jangan.. Buang pikiran itu jauh-jauh..
Soalnya, Mr Twit menunjukkan kasih sayang ke istrinya dengan menaruh kodok di tempat t...more
Jangan dibayangkan kalau mengerjai yang saya bilang disini adalah dengan saling mengitiki pasangan masing-masing jadi tambah mesra, atau membuat makan malam kejutan supaya ikatan kasih sayang semakin mendalam.... Jangan.. Buang pikiran itu jauh-jauh..
Soalnya, Mr Twit menunjukkan kasih sayang ke istrinya dengan menaruh kodok di tempat t...more
Another must-read by Roald Dahl is “The Twits”. This story starts with two twits, Mr. Twit and Mrs. Twit. Mr. Twit has a bushy long beard and mustache. Mrs. Twit is a short chubby lady that uses a cane. The Twits don’t ever bathe, they are mean and nasty, and they play horrible tricks on each other. The only thing they like is bird pie. They make the muggle wumps (their pet monkeys) stand on their heads all day. The muggle wumps have had enough of this. Every day they see Mr. Twit get his ladder...more
Although delightfully horrid at times, the Twits lacks the charm of some of Roald Dahl's other books, like the BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach and a book for book lovers, Matilda.
I remember enjoying it and the nasty tricks the Twits played on each other when I was in elementary school and reading all of Dahl's other books, but as an adult, I think I was more disgusted by the Twits than amused.
However, it is a short read, and as I said, delightfully horrid at tim...more
I remember enjoying it and the nasty tricks the Twits played on each other when I was in elementary school and reading all of Dahl's other books, but as an adult, I think I was more disgusted by the Twits than amused.
However, it is a short read, and as I said, delightfully horrid at tim...more
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the most disgusting, horrible, smelly couple in the world. They are only good at three things: playing tricks on each other, making bird pie and making monkeys stand on their heads. Mr. Twit, who has the most revolting beard in the world, enjoys putting frogs in Mrs. Twit’s bed and making her believe she is shrinking. Mrs. Twit, who always carries a walking stick so she can hit children, likes to put her glass eye in Mr. Twit’s beer and feed him worms. But when Mr. Twit cat...more
The Twits is a story about a very nasty and revolting husband and wife. In their old age they have become bitter, foul, alienating and unhygienic and hate children. The couple love to play clever tricks on each other and always need to get their own back. Tricks have included feeding Mr Twit worms and letting Mrs Twit fly away in the air tied by balloons. Mr Twit trains a family of monkeys to perform upside down and loves to catch birds for pie by sticking glue on tree branches. Luckily, the Twi...more
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 disgusting characters in children’s literature. Mr and Mrs Twit spend their days inventing new ways to 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 to...more
The Twits are two ‘ugly, nasty’ people who have nothing better to do than to be mean and play tricks on each other. They look horrible too! Mr. Twit has a long straggly beard with food droppings in it and Mrs. Twit has an ugly face and a glass eyeball! They are mean to animals and horrible to children. But the ‘Twits’ is a fun filled story and a lot can be learned from them. There can be focuses on language. You could use the twits as a starting point for poetry and use language from the book to...more
The Twits is a book which is capable of making adult readers wretch, and delight children at the same time. This is due to Roald Dahl's brilliant description of the Twit's, but also Quetin Blake's illustrations. Mr and Mrs Twit are a smelly, unfriendly couple who spend their lives playing tricks on each other, catching birds for their baked birds pies and forcing their pet monkeys to do tricks.
Mr Twit has a huge beard, which has gone unwashed for a long time and contains treats such as old corn...more
Mr Twit has a huge beard, which has gone unwashed for a long time and contains treats such as old corn...more
The Twits by Roald Dahl is a story of two grumpy, smelly, married people. They are very unfriendly and always play tricks on each other and the animals around them. They enjoy catching birds by sticking glue on the branches, and making the poo monkeys hang upside down all day long.
However, the birds and the monkey grew very tired of this and one day decided to teach the twits a lesson. While the twits were out and about, the monkeys and the birds turned everything in the house upside down. When...more
However, the birds and the monkey grew very tired of this and one day decided to teach the twits a lesson. While the twits were out and about, the monkeys and the birds turned everything in the house upside down. When...more
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Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Norwegian descent, who rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world's bestselling authors.
Dahl's first published work, inspired by a meeting with C. S. Forester, was Shot Down Over Libya. Today the story is published as "A Piece of...more
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“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
“Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.”
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