The Twits

Imagine a grumpy man with a beard so messy it might have old food stuck in it, and a woman with a glass eye that pops out! That's Mr. and Mrs. Twit. They live in a yucky, dirty house and are always trying to trick each other. They aren't kind at all; they are spiteful and lazy. They even play mean tricks on their pet monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, who are forced to do silly tricks for them.

A famous author named Roald Dahl wrote 'The Twits' in 1980. He really, really disliked beards! He said he wrote this story to do something against beards. He even told a friend's son that a beard might have breakfast, dinner, and old rubbish in it, maybe even a bicycle wheel! Roald Dahl loved to write fun, sometimes a little bit scary, stories for kids.

Lots of people love 'The Twits'! It was even picked as one of the top 200 books ever written in a big survey in Britain. Years later, the Twits were so famous they were put on a special stamp, like a tiny picture you put on a letter! People liked the book so much that it was turned into a play, and there's even a movie coming out soon!

Because Mr. and Mrs. Twit are so mean and play nasty tricks, they eventually get a taste of their own medicine. The monkeys they treated so badly decide they've had enough! The monkeys work together to get revenge on the Twits. It's a funny and exciting ending where the nasty couple finally gets what they deserve for being so wicked.