But the real reason she carried a stick was so that she could hit things with it, things like dogs and cats and small children. A Roly-Poly Bird likewise makes an appearance in The Enormous Crocodile and is also to be found in Dirty Beasts. To keep their heads glued to the ground, two birds will put a small amount of glue on the Twits' heads right before they enter the house so that when they stand on their heads, they will be stuck.

You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. With so much weight on it from above, the Twits literally get 'the shrinks', as was mentioned earlier in the book, but this time it's not a trick; it's the real thing. Twit), a spiteful, idle, unkempt couple who continuously play nasty practical jokes on each other to amuse themselves, and exercise their devious wickedness on their pet monkeys. She used to tell people that this was because she had warts growing on the sole of her left foot and walking was painful. It is this use of glue that gives the captive monkey Muggle-Wump and his family the idea of using it against the Twits.Their head shrinks into their neck, their necks shrink into their bodies, their bodies shrink into their legs, and their legs shrink into their feet. This is a short, amazing and funny story about two disgusting, silly people who always pull pranks and tricks on one another which is funnyAnd also it’s about a bunch of monkeys that have been trapped in the Twit’s garden and they have to escape. To pay Mrs Twit back for the worms in his spaghetti, Mr Twit thought up a really clever, nasty trick . Twit up in the garden to 60 gas balloons intending to leave her there for a while to teach her a lesson. His hair (which he falsely believes makes him appear 'wise and grand' but is widely agreed by everyone else makes him look like a twit), is unkempt.

In The Twits, more than a dozen changes were made, including changing "ladies and gentlemen" to "folks" and removing words like batty, nutty, screwy, ugly, and hag. By doing this, the Twits will believe that they have been turned upside down, as they will be standing on what looks like the ceiling of their house and will stand on their heads to be the right way up. Using their friend the Roly-Poly Bird as an interpreter of languages, Muggle-Wump and his wife and children convey the warning that any bird landing on the Big Dead Tree will be cooked into Mrs. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Usually by Christmas time, half of my kids are walking around showing off their entire Roald Dahl box sets. Since February 2003, a feature film adaptation of the book has been in development by Vanguard Animation and its founder John H. The monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits so that they can escape and put a stop to the frightful pair once and for all! I've heard from some quarters the criticism that Roald Dahl's books are often too dark and should therefore not be read to children.

Because he never washes it, his beard holds scraps of food stuck there while he ate, including tinned sardines, Stilton cheese, and corn flakes.

A monkey bearing resemblance to Quentin Blake's illustration of the same character also appears in The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. Everything goes as planned, the Twits believed they've been turned upside down and so stand on their heads to counter it, only to be stuck to the bare floor. A hideous, vindictive, spiteful married couple known as the Twits live together in a brick house without windows.