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Mr. and Mrs. Twit are two ugly, smelly, nasty, stupid people who spend their lives playing nasty tricks on each other. They also enjoy being cruel to animals, which they do by luring birds to glue-smothered trees so they can be baked into bird pie, and tormenting their pet monkeys, Muggle-Wump... read more
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Summary edit
This is the story of the Twits, Mr. and Mrs., who are cruel, grouchy and miserable. Their cruelty eventually turns them against each other and has some interesting-and somewhat comical-results.
Characters/People edit
- Mr. Twit: Mr Twit is a trollish person, having hair that covers his whole face, except for his forehead, eyes and his nose. His hair (which he falsely believes makes him look wise and grand), is spiky and hard rather than smooth and soft. He is 60 years old, and he never washes. His beard contains scraps of food dropped there while he ate, including tinned sardines, stilton cheese, and corn flakes. Occasionally, he picks these scraps out and eats them. He is also a possible cannibal; when some boys come into his garden and climb the glue-ridden branches of the tree and get stuck by the seats of their pants, he threatens to bake them in a pie instead of the birds; they escape by unzipping their pants and falling out of the tree, however. Mr Twit is a beer drinker, even doing so at breakfast. He is known to get very quiet when he is plotting his latest evil trick, the victim of which is usually his wife.
- Mrs. Twit: Add a description of this character.
- Muggle-Wump: This is the father monkey that is kept by The Twits and who comes up with the idea to get revenge on them.
- Fred: Gas meter man.
- Mr. Twit: Mr.twit didn't liked getting prankt but he love pranking Mrs.twit...
- Baby Monkey #1
- Baby Monkey #2
- Roly-Poly Bird
Quotes edit
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“Now when something is growing very very slowly, it is almost impossible to notice it happening. You yourself, for example, are actually growing taller every day that goes by, but you wouldn't think it, would you?”
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays.
Table of Contents edit
Hairy Faces
Mr. Twit
Dirty Beards
Mrs. Twit
The Glass Eye
The Frog
The Wormy Spaghetti
The Funny Walking Stick
Mrs. Twit Has the Shrinks
Mrs. Twit Gets a Stretching
Mrs. Twit Goes Ballooning Up
Mrs. Twit Goes Ballooning Down
Mr. Twit Gets a Horrid Shock
The House, the Tree, & the Monkey Cage
Hugtight Sticky Glue
Four Sticky Little Boys
The Great Upside-Down Monkey Cicus
The Roly-Poly Bird to the Rescue
No Bird Pie for Mr. Twit
Still No Bird Pie for Mr. Twit
Mr. & Mrs. Twit Go Off to Buy Guns
Muggle-Wump Has an Idea
The Great Glue Painting Begins
The Carpet Goes on the Cieling
The Furniture Goes Up
The Ravens Swoop Over
The Twits Are Turned Upside Down
The Monkeys Escape
The Twits Get the Shrinks
Series & Lists edit
This is book 81 of 196 in BBC 'Big Read' Top 200 Novels, 2003. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Double Act, and followed by I Capture the Castle.
This is book 1 of 14 in 100 Books Every Child Should Read - Part 01: Early Years (The Telegraph). (authoritative list)
Followed by Burglar Bill.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Roald Dahl (Author)
- Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Jonathan Cape (London)
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1980
ISBN: 0-224-01855-8
Page Count: 87
Publisher: Jonathan Cape (London)
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1980
ISBN: 0-224-01855-8
Page Count: 87
Awards edit
- Whitcoulls Kids' Top 50 (2011) (2011, #8)
- BBC's Big Read (April 2003, #81)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PR6054.A35
- Dewey: 823.914
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