The Twits by Roald Dahl Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Twits
Book Review: Love it!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Twits, by Roald Dahl is about a husband and wife that are extremely funny, yet not too smart. Mr. Twit is described with a big, burly beard with food stuck in it and Mrs. Twit is described as an old, ugly hag. Naturally, the Twits love to play mean tricks on each other, which always leads up to a good laugh. Throughout the book, tricks continue to go back and forth from Mr. and Mrs. Twit which in return keeps the story rolling along enjoyably. In the end, Mr. and Mrs. Twit find out that their pet monkeys plan to turn on their owners with a plan of tricks of their own. Overall, The Twits is another great book by Dahl with a moral that its what is on the inside that counts.Book Review: Ramah, NM Student reviews
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought that the "The Twits" was a very dumb book. "The Twits" had no concept at all, and the whole idea of the book was horrible. Personally, I think that "The Twits" was not one of Roald Dahl's best books.
I thought that the "The Twits" was a very dumb book. "The Twits" had no concept at all, and the whole idea of the book was horrible. Personally, I think that "The Twits" was not one of Roald Dahl's best books.
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I had fun reading this book the twits. I like this book the twits because I never seen old people do funny stuff like what they do. They make things out of animals like bird pie. I like when they get mad at each other. These old hags are so scary they don't need to dress up for Halloween. The twits are the funniest hags I ever seen.
Book Review: Simply, A Riot!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this to my 4 year old son and my 5 1/2 year old daughter who both adored this book and belly laughed the entire way through each of the chapters. I have started introducing chapter books for some time trying to increase listening skills and really holding their interest. This book did exactly that. The Twits play their mean clever tricks on one another for the entire book and one is just a bit funnier than the next but what comes around goes around as you will find out. I read a negative review on this book and I disagree. You can't shelter your child from everything, and in some cases I believe it is not to the child's benefit to shelter them- instead I believe if they are raised with love and respect for others, they will really be able to enjoy this intelligently written, hilarious, not to be taken seriously, book. If an adult is buying this book to read to a child, you will find it just as enjoyable and amusing as the child will. Fun for all.Book Review: Some crude humor mixed with friendship and a moral ending
Summary: 3 Stars
THE TWITS is a funny and enjoyable little yarn which stinks of some gross humor and yet warms the readers with stories of friendship and helping each other as well as a couple of moral lessons in the tradition of Aesop. On a side note, the "crude" humor in this little book is fairly tame by today's standards.Book Review: The Twits
Summary: 5 Stars
Did anyone ever play a joke on you? Well, I'm pretty sure Mr. and Mrs. Twit, from the book The Twits by Roald Dahl, had a lot of experience with that. This book is about a married couple that nobody likes. Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, and ugliest people in the world. Mr. Twit is the hairiest faced man. He has hair everywhere except his forehead. Mrs. Twit wasn't ugly at first but then she got uglier and uglier as the years went by. She is always negative toward people and, the expression on her face showed it and that's why she became ugly.
Their hobbies are to play mean and nasty jokes on each other and catch birds to put them in their pies. Some problems are that they think everything is a joke and they are rude to everybody in their town. All they do is play jokes on each other. Mrs. Twit has one fake eye that she always puts in Mr. Twit's beers so he could get scared. Mr. Twit is the person that always wins in the jokes. There are different kinds of jokes: funny, nasty, and even really mean ones. Since she uses a cane, Mr. Twit started putting little pieces of wood (no thicker than a penny) to make her cane taller. Then he told her she was getting the shrinks. Her reaction was, "Is there a cure?" Then Mr. Twit told her that she would be getting smaller and smaller until there was nothing left of her.
Mr. Twit is always putting super sticky glue on the trees to catch birds to put them in their pies. Since they make the monkeys do everything up side down the monkeys got mad. The monkeys and birds decided to get their revenge on Mr. and Mrs. Twit. They make it look as if Mr. and Mrs. Twit were up-side down. They put everything on the ceiling then when they came in they started to panic and saying "We are up-side down!" "HELP!"
I liked this book because it was hilarious. While I was reading the book it started getting more and more interesting and funny. One way this book was funny is that they play jokes on each other. One of my favorite parts was when the monkeys and birds got their revenge, after they got tired of getting pushed around by the Twits. I think you would really like this book if you are a person that likes to joke around. Therefore I recommend this book to people that love comedy. If you do like comedy I think this is the best book to read.