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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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2036 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

18 Sep 2026

I like the monkeys. They are smart though they were in cage for so long. They came out with birds' help, but then use their ways to make Mr and Mrs Twists understand their feelings when being locked in a cage

17 Sep 2026

Interesting

10 Sep 2026

Found it very interesting

08 Sep 2026

I loved the twits. It is very funny. I would recommend it to everyone

08 Sep 2026

This book is so gross and funny

03 Sep 2026

It is a book about these cruel and nasty people who are very mean to animals and in the end they die somehow. Get the book to find out!

02 Sep 2026

I like the monkeys and feel sad for them. I am happy they are freed at the end. I think the tricks that the Twits do to each other are funny.

02 Sep 2026

Brilliant

02 Sep 2026

The twits are disgusting and funny. They prank each other it makes me laugh

01 Sep 2026

I liked it when Mrs Twit fed mr Twit the worms instead of spaghetti!

01 Sep 2026

Some of the language is hard to read but the story is very good. I liked it when the animals got their own back at the end

01 Sep 2026

I think this is a wonderful book. It was very funny when Mr Twit and Mrs Twit do pranks on each other. Especially when Mr Twit said Mrs Twit is getting shorter. My favourite character is the monkeys when they put everything upside down. I would recommend it to 4 to 9.

31 Aug 2026

I like the monkeys and that they play tricks on them

31 Aug 2026

I like the monkeys and that they play tricks on them

31 Aug 2026

This is my favourite book I have read it so many times

31 Aug 2026

I love the twits, especially the monkeys who glue everything to the ceiling so Mr Twit has to stand on his head!

30 Aug 2026

I thought it was funny when they got stuck on the ceiling.

29 Aug 2026

I liked the mean things they did to eachother

28 Aug 2026

I loved it.

27 Aug 2026

I loved this book because the Twits are ugly and they keep doing silly things to each other.

26 Aug 2026

I thought it was really good because the Mugglewump family escaped and Mr and Mrs Twit got glue all over their heads and had to do handstands and their heads shrunk into their necks and their necks shrunk into their bodies and their bodies shrunk into their legs and their legs shrank into their feet

23 Aug 2026

The twins were so mean and horrible , the animals gluing them to the ceiling was super funny

23 Aug 2026

Good but not great

22 Aug 2026

Fab u lous!

21 Aug 2026

Fun

20 Aug 2026

There was no good character in this book. The twits were horrible but the bird and the monkeys helped

19 Aug 2026

When they went upside down

18 Aug 2026

I’d recommend The Twits to young readers who enjoy silly, disgusting and slightly dark humour. I enjoyed how ridiculous the characters are and the funny tricks they play on each other. The book made me think about how being cruel and unpleasant can make someone ugly on the inside as well as the outside. I also liked that the monkeys eventually outsmart the Twits and escape.
I would recommend it to children around 7–11, especially those who enjoy Roald Dahl’s other books. There are some content warnings, including cruelty towards animals, bullying, violence, disgusting food and lots of gross-out humour. These are all exaggerated for comedy, but some younger or more sensitive readers might find them unpleasant.

17 Aug 2026

I loved it

17 Aug 2026

I love this book- we went to Roald Dahl museum

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