This is the tale of the Twits: Mr and Mrs Twit, an obnoxious couple who spend their lives trying to outdo each other in nastiness. But the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve.

The Twits

The Twits is a children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

Mr and Mrs Twit are two ugly, smelly, nasty people, who spend their lives playing nasty tricks on each other. At the same time they enjoy treating animals with cruelty, by luring birds to glue-smothered trees (so that they can be baked into bird pie) and tormenting their pet monkeys (by getting them to stand upside down, one on top of the other). Then, one day, the arrival of the Roly-Poly Bird from Africa allows the monkeys to get the revenge that they have craved for years.

length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　 width:(cm)12.8