Author : Roald Dahl, Illustrator : Quentin
Blake
3rd Grade and Up
Los cretinos
The Twits
Los
cretinos,
Softcover, Spanish, Book,
Roald Dahl, Quentin
Blake,
3rd Grade and Up, 9789681905590,
$9.95
The Twits, Softcover, English, Book, Roald Dahl, Quentin
Blake, 3rd Grade and Up,
9780142410394, $5.99
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Mr. and Mrs. Twit hate everything, including their trained monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, who now want revenge.
The unbearable Twits do not allow anyone to live in peace, but a migrant bird and some monkeys teach them a lesson!
Publishers Weekly : In Dahl's typically outre outing, the repulsive, misanthropic Mr. and Mrs. Twit become the target of revenge by the Mugglewump monkeys--who have finally had enough. Ages 7-11.
School Library Journal : Grade 2-4-Actor Simon Callow tackles one of Roald Dahl's most gruesome stories (Puffin, pap. 1998) with relish in this gleefully naughty audiobook. Mr. and Mrs. Twit are two of the most disgusting, nasty, and horrid characters in children's literature, from their repulsive looks (the story opens with a long, detailed description of Mr. Twit's unkempt beard) to the mean and horrible tricks they play on one another (Mrs. Twit enjoys hiding her glass eyeball in unexpected places and lacing the spaghetti with worms; Mr. Twit works for weeks to convince his wife that she has "The Shrinks"). Callow captures the dry humor of Dahl's narrative voice perfectly, and creates appropriately nasty voices for Mr. and Mrs. Twit as well. Unfortunately, the thick accents and loud tones of these voices often mean that the dialogue is difficult to understand. Still, Callow's able narration brings Dahl's ironic sensibilities to life, and a sense of satisfaction is inevitable when the terrible Twits come to an appropriately gruesome end.