Recommended Age:
7
+
Great for early chapter book readers who enjoy humorous, character-driven stories with playful language and imaginative mischief.
About the Book
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the nastiest, ugliest, most disgusting couple imaginable, who delight in playing cruel pranks on each other and tormenting the animals they keep captive—until the animals devise a plan for revenge. A gleefully gross and wickedly funny Dahl classic.
Content Ratings
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Light Themes
The main characters represent cruelty and ugliness of spirit. Their downfall is comic and satisfying. Themes of justice, the ugliness of meanness, and the triumph of the oppressed are central. The tone is gleefully subversive.
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Mild Violence
The main characters are cruel to each other and to animals. Monkeys are kept in cages. Birds are caught with glue. Violence is cartoonish and darkly comic, serving a poetic justice.
Engagement:
Genre:
Comedy / Humor
Published:
1980
Page Count:
76