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The Twits

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The Twits by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake

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By Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake

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1997 reviews

The Twits are possibly the nastiest and most digusting of all Roald Dahl’s characters.

Frogs in beds; Eyeballs in drinks; Worms in spaghetti

Mr and Mrs Twit are really disgusting. They smell because they never wash, they fight because they play tricks on each other, AND they hate children. But worst of all, they keep monkeys in their back garden. In cages. It’s time for the monkeys to get their revenge on these two most revolting creatures . . .


meet the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird!*


with a great new cover by Quentin Blake, and a whole exciting section about Roald Dahl and his world***

‘A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero’ – David Walliams

Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children’s writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after ""a monumental bash on the head"", sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990.

Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children’s illustrators and it’s impossible now to think of Roald Dahl’s writings without imagining Quentin Blake’s illustrations.

Reviews

03 Aug 2026

Very funny

03 Aug 2026

I liked the book a lot but it was kinda dark (especially at the end where the twist d!3, by the way I mean die) and I think that the movie honestly had a better storyline for kids (turned into a story about the twits bonding over a dream before getting shut down and becoming cruel, they are anti-heroes)

03 Aug 2026

It's funny

01 Aug 2026

Muddle wumps we're my favorite characters. The book was funny and I enjoyed all the tricks the twits played on each other. I would recommend this book

31 Jul 2026

Didn't like they were doing bad stuff to each other

29 Jul 2026

Amazingly funny !

28 Jul 2026

So funny i loved it

26 Jul 2026

Rolly poly bird was my favourite because of the colours it was rainbow.

25 Jul 2026

Listen to this on audible I love the tricks they play on each other they are so funny

25 Jul 2026

I liked this book because four children were on the tree that Mr Twit had glued, but they jumped off and escaped even though they had no trousers on.

25 Jul 2026

I didn’t like it when the birds got stuck to the tree with glue and I didn’t like the mr and mrs twit characters they were not kind.

24 Jul 2026

Funny story.

21 Jul 2026

I loved how the mugglewumps tricked the nasty smelly twits into gluing their heads to the floor. They were not very nice to the animals especially the birds who they glued to the trees. It was a funny book and im glad the mugglewumps got free.

21 Jul 2026

The Twits get stuck upside down on their heads and this interests me. Some clothes get glued to them accidentally.

20 Jul 2026

It is tremendous! I loved it! Bestest book EVER! My fave book ever.

19 Jul 2026

Funniest

19 Jul 2026

It was funny, I liked how the birds made the twits fall to the ground.

13 Jul 2026

It is a really funny book. At the end, Mr and Mrs Twit shrunk because their heads were upside down.

12 Jul 2026

It was a fiction book,I liked Mr and Mrs twit because they liked to play tricks on each other,it interested me because it was really funny and that there were monkeys in it , I would recommend it to my grandparents because they like reading funny books.

12 Jul 2026

They kept doing rotten things to each other.

11 Jul 2026

I like this book because all of the funny tricks and my favourite trick is when they put all the stuff on the ceiling.

10 Jul 2026

I liked that the book was smart and surprising.

04 Jul 2026

I thought it was disgusting

29 Jun 2026

My favourite part was when the monkeys and the birds put everything upside down and the Twits were tricked.

28 Jun 2026

Mr twit was my favourite, he had smelly things in his beard. It was funny.

24 Jun 2026

Enjoy reading this book . Read it at school and wanted it for home

18 Jun 2026

What do you enjoy? Funny
What was your favourite line? “Oh do shut up. You old crow”
Would you recommend to others? Yes!!

18 Feb 2026

This book was really funny, I loved the monkeys! I would recommend this book.

14 Feb 2026

There’s people just beardy

14 Feb 2026

I found the story funny, i liked the part when Mrs Twit screams because Mr Twit attached her to lots of balloons.

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