One of Dahl's gleefully naughty children's books, complete with the most disgusting description of a person's beard ever. I believe that Mr. and Mrs. Twit are two of the most nastiest and horrid characters in children's literature, from their repulsive looks to the mean and horrible tricks they play on one another (Mrs. Twit enjoys hiding her glass eyeball in unexpected places and lacing the spaghetti with worms; Mr. Twit works for weeks to convince his wife that she has "The Shrinks") to being unpleasant to their four pet Mugglewump monkeys, and catching birds with Hugtight Sticky Glue to make bird pie.

The misanthropic Mr. and Mrs. Twit become the target of revenge by the monkeys (with the help of the Roly-Poly Bird and other English birds)--who have finally had enough. Of course, nasty people cannot be expected to come to a good end, and the monkeys craftily strategize to turn the tables on the horrible couple.

The underlying moral here is that no matter what you look like physically, if you have good thoughts, they will shine right through and make you a beautiful person, and of course the opposite also unfortunately applies.

Book Details:

Title The Twits
Author Roald Dahl
Reviewed By Purplycookie ( )

I best book I read as a kid. I love it. ( )

Short and silly but hilarious. ( )

Mr and Mrs Twit are dreadful. They play beastly tricks and they not only play them on each other- they are quite likely to involve the unsuspecting local birds or the Muggle-Wumps, the family of monkeys. But the time comes for revenge and the Twist deserve their nasty and comical fate. ( )

Wickedly funny. Worked well as a read-aloud. ( )