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for The Twits - Roald Dahl

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  • 45 of 45 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Brummie699

    5 Stars What a Silly Name for a Book! Review with images 16/01/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Brilliantly written, wonderful story

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Will appeal to younger children mainly.

    Introduction Once you’ve read one Roald Dahl book, you want to read more. “George’s Marvellous Medicine” quickly turned into “The Twits” in a brief hailstorm of Dahl children’s stories. Better still is that I’ve discovered that there are plenty of titles like “The Enormous Crocodile” and “The Magic Finger” that I’ve yet to try. One shouldn’t forget that there is a wide range of titles appealing to all cross sections of readers by Dahl. These include further books for younger children, books for older readers like “The BFG” and “The Witches”, picture books like “Dirty Beasts” and “Revolting ... more
  • 111 of 111 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    stuleg

    5 Stars FRUMPTIOUS FREAKS & MUGGLE-WUMPS Review with images 09/10/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Beautiful story and Characters

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Don`t be daft it`s by Roald Dahl

    “Mr Twit was a very hairy-faced man. The whole of his face except for his forehead, his eyes and his nose was covered with thick hair. The stuff even sprouted in revolting tufts out of his nostrils and ear-holes” What a disgusting couple Mr and Mrs Twit are, they never wash and they detest children. They are never happier than when they are playing tricks on each other, Mrs Twit thinks it hilarious to take out her glass eye and hide it in Mr Twits beer, Mr Twit finds it equally funny to put a frog in Mrs Twits bed and tell her it’s the dreaded sharp toothed skillywiggler – and that it will ... more
  • 89 of 89 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 luckyarchers

    Member since 17/10/2002

    Reviews written: 159

    5 Stars How to be a Twit! Review with images 17/01/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages It’s hilarious and it’s Roald Dahl.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not to be taken too seriously.

    The first idea for this book apparently came to the author while still at school. In an exercise book with ideas that he jotted down for stories, he wrote, “do something against beards.” This was because he never understood why some men wanted to hide their faces behind large bushy beards. Roald Dahl said, “Writing is all propaganda, in a sense. You can get at greediness and selfishness by making them look ridiculous. The greatest attribute of a human being is kindness, and all the other qualities like bravery, and perseverance are secondary to that.” If you read this book you will see that he ... more
  • 83 of 83 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 purplelynne

    Member since 19/08/2001

    Reviews written: 96

    5 Stars Mugglewumps V the Twits Review with images 28/06/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Funny and disgusting!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    I was brought up on a diet of Roahl Dahl as a child. My mum was an avid reader, and I caught the bug from her. I spent hours digesting endless stories such as The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. I read The Twits when it first came out in 1980 and I was 9 years old, the same age that my son is now. I read this book from cover to cover in about a day, and have loved it ever since. My son recently came home from school with this book. His challenge was to read it all, as he had progressed so well with his normal reading scheme. He was very excited and became ... more
  • 73 of 73 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    LR_17

    5 Stars Mr and Mrs Twit are twits! 31/07/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A wonderful childrens book!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Don't encourage kids to take seriously what's in this book.

    Hello Ciaoers! I am continuing in my quest to do reviews on some of my favourite childrens books, and surprise surprise, it's a book by Roald Dahl. This one is called: THE TWITS On to the story! Mr and Mrs Twit were a throughly nasty pair of people. They were old, nasty, cruel and unforgiving, but most of all...they were twits! They were born twits and have been the same all their lives. Their house has no windows as it's all bricked up except for the doors and the garden is full of weeds and nettles to keep out little girls and boys. Mr and Mrs Twit don't wash or groom and are two of the ... more
  • 64 of 64 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 AJ26

    Member since 27/07/2003

    Reviews written: 159

    5 Stars The Twits 25/02/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Funny, enjoyable read, great pictures.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Disgusting in parts!

    I loved reading Roald Dahl books as a child and even now I still enjoy them. Roald Dahl has the skill to write books which appeal to both children and adults. He writes with a unique style of wit, wicked humour and usually some disgusting parts thrown in as well. The Twits is a fine example of his writing and still captures children's imaginations today. The Plot The main characters in this book are Mr and Mrs Twit, as you can probably guess from their names they are not the smartest folk on the block. Mr Twit is a very hairy faced man, hair sprouts from his nose, his ears and all over his ... more
  • 63 of 63 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Mattroberts

    3 Stars You're The Twit, Mr Dahl! 07/12/2003
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages See Review

    Disadvantages Disadvantages See Review

    Thanks to Malu, setting her wonderful challenge, I have rummaged my book collection to find some of my favourite children's books. I've never thought of going back down that road before, but last week, I decided to re-read, The Twits that I hadn't read since I was six. I didn't remember any of the stories, all I recalled, was that it was the first book I read in one sitting. It took me an hour back then, and I still remember how chuffed I was at that time. So, last week after watching an installment of Pop Idol, I decided to turn the television off, and I began to read Roald Dahl's classic ... more
  • 57 of 57 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    britum2000

    5 Stars The very best of children's humour. 17/11/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A great and truly funny kid's story.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Absoluteltly none, you'll love it.

    One of the real pleasures of teaching was to sit down comfortably in the book corner with the kids in the last half hour of a busy day, the best was always Friday for obvious reasons, and read to them. Not just read but perform the story, do all the silly voices, and even act out the more graphic and physical parts of the narrative. I would like to think that the best of parents, the ones whose kids have a real love of stories and books, already do this at a quiet time of the day such as bedtime. As a teacher I loved reading to young kids and got a real kick out of their rapt faces reacting to ... more
  • 57 of 57 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    bazzaoleary77

    5 Stars Are You A Twit????? 19/03/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Funny, Great Read

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    I first read this book when I was in first school. I remember my teacher reading it to the class. Me and all my class mates were sitting on the carpet laughing away at the hilarious story. We all loved this book and I think we all still do. It is a humorous story all the way through. About the Twits --------------------- The Twits (Mr. and Mrs. Twit) hate each other like mad but they stay together which I think they probably stay together because they love being horrible to each other. For starters Mr. Twit always calls Mrs. Twit a old hag and she just gives him evil stares and becomes grumpy ... more
  • 36 of 36 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    daisyleex

    5 Stars "If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face.." Review with images 20/12/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Funny

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    The Twits by Roald Dahl The Twits will always have a special place in my heart. I even played the role of the Roly Poly Bird during a 'The Twits' play we did at school in year 7, in which I donned a plastic beak and an orange sequined leotard that gave me the flattering (!) appearence of an oompa loompa with a beak. The Twits really is a brilliant book, though. I loved it when I was younger, and love it even more than i'm an adult, mainly because I can now see the subtle underlying message. The Twits tells the story of Mr and Mrs Twit, a vile (yet hugely comedic) pair who are in their 60's. Mr ... more
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