A horrible couple who play nasty tricks on each other finally get what they deserve
The nastiest couple in the world
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the dirtiest, ugliest and nastiest people you could imagine. Mr. Twit's beard is full of old bits of food, and Mrs. Twit has a glass eye and a walking stick she uses for hitting animals. They spend their days playing horrible tricks on each other and tormenting a family of monkeys that they keep in a cage, until the animals plan their revenge.
Who will enjoy it
Children aged about six to ten and adults who love silly, disgusting humor and stories where nasty people get what they deserve.
What you will get
A hilariously revolting, fast and funny story where kindness wins and nastiness is punished, perfect for reading aloud and making children laugh.
The Twits Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Children’s Books · Humor · Revenge · Animals
Length
112 pages · ≈ 3 h
More about this book
Dahl begins with a famous little lecture about beards and how much food can hide in them, then introduces the couple's tricks. Mrs. Twit puts her glass eye in her husband's beer mug and serves him worms disguised as spaghetti. Mr. Twit convinces her that she is shrinking by secretly lengthening her walking stick and the legs of her chair, a disease he calls the dreaded shrinks. The jokes are gross, cruel and very funny, and Quentin Blake's drawings make them even better.
The Twits also smear sticky glue on the branches of a dead tree to catch birds for their weekly bird pie, and they force a family of monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, to practice standing upside down for a circus act. With the help of the Roly-Poly Bird from Africa, the monkeys escape and warn the other birds. Then they plan a brilliant revenge, turning the Twits' whole house upside down, with sticky glue playing its part. The ending is wonderfully satisfying. The book is short and ideal for young readers moving to chapter books.
Short, silly and very funny. About 112 pages in the Puffin paperback.
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