Despite Roald Dahl having instructed his publishers not to "so much as change a single comma in one of my books", in February 2023 Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Books, announced that it would be re-writing portions of many of Dahl's children's novels, changing the language to, in the publisher's words, "ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today". Since February 2003, a feature film adaptation of the book has been in development by Vanguard Animation and its founder John H. Dahl's publishers in the United States, France, and the Netherlands declined to incorporate the changes. The birds' descriptions of Muggle-Wump's sanity ("dotty", "balmy", "batty", "nutty", "screwy", "wacky") are the same as those used by the parents to describe Willy Wonka's sanity in Chapter 18, "Down the Chocolate River", of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Some of his better-known works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda, The Witches, and The BFG.

It is this use of glue that gives the captive monkey Muggle-Wump and his family the idea of using it against the Twits. In 2003, The Twits was listed at number 81 in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration. Because he never washes it, his beard holds scraps of food stuck there while he ate, including tinned sardines, Stilton cheese, and corn flakes. Twit is a wicked person, having hair that covers his entire face, with the exception of his forehead, eyes, and nose.

Using their friend the Roly-Poly Bird as an interpreter of languages, Muggle-Wump and his wife and children convey the warning that any bird landing on the Big Dead Tree will be cooked into Mrs. I've heard from some quarters the criticism that Roald Dahl's books are often too dark and should therefore not be read to children. Twit pretends to tie some more strings to her ankles, before cutting through the strings and sending her skywards. Roald Dahl Books Get New Edits—And Critics Cry Censorship: The Controversy Surrounding 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' And More". It isn't until he empties the mug that he sees the eye sitting in there, startling him something awful.Once a week the Roly-Poly bird flies to visit the monkeys, to secretly save the birds by acting as an interpreter of languages. The chief of these are the Muggle-Wumps, the Twits’ family of pet monkeys from their days as circus trainers. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. With so much weight on it from above, the Twits literally get 'the shrinks', as was mentioned earlier in the book, but this time it's not a trick; it's the real thing. A hideous, vindictive, spiteful married couple known as the Twits live together in a brick house without windows.

Twit are putting all their weight down on the heads and catch the 'Dreaded Shrinks'- with their bodies compressing 'downwards'. Twit feel that she is shrinking, he slowly extended her chair and cane until she was convinced that she was getting shorter. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. Twit's glue to attach the Twits' furniture to their ceiling, while the birds come up with an idea to smear glue on the Twits' heads.

During the story four schoolboys are caught instead of birds, but escape by unfastening their trousers and falling to the ground outside the Twits' garden after Mr.

Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve!

The Twits, who are retired circus trainers, are trying to create the first upside-down monkey circus. A monkey bearing resemblance to Quentin Blake's illustration of the same character also appears in The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. The idea of The Twits was triggered by Dahl's desire to 'do something against beards', because he had an acute hatred of them. Netflix Animation Erased: Executives Fired, Shows Canceled and Accusations of 'Staged Data' (Exclusive)".