The Twits

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Scroll through this resource based on chapter 7 of The Twits and choose which would best suit your KS2 class. That is what a politically correct reviewer from the nanny state would say before banning the book. But not children! Real witches disguise themselves as lovely ladies, when secretly they want to squish and squelch all the wretched children they despise.

In The Twits, more than a dozen changes were made, including changing "ladies and gentlemen" to "folks" and removing words like batty, nutty, screwy, ugly, and hag. [13] [14] Original textWe aren't currently taking new book specific requests but we'll put your suggestion on our list for future ideas. There is an editable version of this resource, or you might want to have a look at our fabulous Create tool which will give you access to our lovely illustrations and templates. You can even upload your own images to use! :) Once your kids find the speech, they must add in inverted commas to show where the speech begins and ends. Mrs. Twit removes her glass eye and drops it in her husband's beer mug while he isn't looking. It isn't until he empties the mug that he sees the eye sitting in there, startling him something awful. Mrs. Twit laughs, gloating that this proves she is always watching him. What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around these days. When a man grows hair all over his face it is impossible to tell what he really looks like. Perhaps that's why he does it.He'd rather you didn't know. a b c Dellatto, Marisa (20 February 2023). "Roald Dahl Books Get New Edits—And Critics Cry Censorship: The Controversy Surrounding 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' And More". Forbes. Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. ISSN 0015-6914. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023 . Retrieved 27 February 2023.

Anyway, I don't recommend this one, especially not to read to your kids. It's a little too stuffed with meanness, and it was annoying to explain why awful ideas like "ugly people are ugly because they had such ugly thoughts" aren't true, at bedtime. A Roly-Poly Bird likewise makes an appearance in The Enormous Crocodile and is also to be found in Dirty Beasts. 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. Twit's Bird Pie. When Mr. Twit, in retaliation, spreads glue on the monkeys' cage (which serves as a substitute perch), the monkeys alter the warning. The birds end up landing on the Twits' roof. My kid's grandparents gave my kid a Roald Dahl collection for Christmas, so now I'm reading the stories out loud. This was the book where I'm starting to regret the whole thing. Dahl reminds me (loosely) of a children's Stephen King, in that he is so full of ideas that are seemingly independent of one another, yet have loose threads that connect, at least for the attentive reader. Dahl is able to dazzle the reader with his array of spooky adult characters (another usual trait for Dahl books in that adults are most often evil or oppressive to the child in the story) and their antics to bestow revenge or pain on others. Dahl weaves the story from the early exploration of the Twits to the ultimate battle between good and evil (in this case fauna versus Twit) and there is little hope that it will end peacefully. Children can attach themselves to the ever-evolving narrative and laugh at key moments throughout. A wordsmith and gifted storyteller for sure, Dahl is in a class all his own.The much-loved Roald Dahl story, updated for a whole new generation of readers with an exciting new interior design and cover look. Mr. Twit then frightens her by claiming that she has contracted an illness called the 'shrinks', by which she will be caused to disappear. Mr. Twit then claims that to cure the shrinks, Mrs. Twit will have to be 'stretched'. Mr. Twit then ties Mrs. Twit up in the garden to 60 gas balloons intending to leave her there for a while to teach her a lesson. So in typical Roald Dahl fashion they get exactly what is coming to them. They may be caricatures, though they are a very good example to children about why we should never hate. Even though they are horrible, hating them is the wrong thing to do because we are just as bad as them. Toxic people should be removed from our lives. There’s no point hating them, just walk away from them like the animals attempt to do here.

This set of instructions explains Mr Twit’s method for catching birds to put into Mrs Twit’s bird pie and also Mrs Twit’s ‘Wormy Spaghetti’. Hairy Faces What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays. When a man grows hair all over his face it is impossible to tell what he really looks like. Perhaps that’s why he does it. He’d rather you didn’t know. Then there’s the problem of washing. When the very hairy ones wash their faces, it must be as big a job as when you and I wash the hair on our heads. So what I want to know is this. How often do all these hairy-faced men wash their faces? Is it only once a week, like us, on Sunday nights? And do they shampoo it? Do they use a hairdryer? Do they rub hair- tonic in to stop their faces from going bald? Do they go to a barber to have their hairy faces cut and trimmed or do they do it themselves in front of the bathroom mirror with nail-scissors? I don’t know. But next time you see a man with a hairy face (which will probably be as soon as you step out on to the street) maybe you will look at him more closely and start wondering about some of these things. Quentin was the inaugural Children's Laureate (1999-2001), an experience he recorded in his book Laureate's Progress. During his time in the role, he celebrated children's books and children's book illustration with a range of projects and exhibitions, and conceived the idea for the House of Illustration, the world's first centre dedicated to the art of illustration in all its forms. I have read this story to many of my junior classes, who simply adored the antics of the Twits and the monkeys' revenge.Mr Twit had reached the top of the ladder and was just about to make a grab for the nearest boy when they all suddenly tumbled out of the tree and ran for home with their naked bottoms winking at the sun.

Listen to the audiobook version of the story. Could you retell the story using accents and expressions like this? We have differentiated the activity for Year 3 and Year 4 to reduce the amount of word classes the children need to focus on. I originally read this book in either elementary school or middle school and really enjoyed it. Since I am reading all of Roald Dahl's books again, I thought "why not," and re-read this one. Surprisingly, I don't remember this story at all. They play pranks on each other; such as worms in food, frogs in beds, psychological torture, and air space incursions. The BFG stands for Big Friendly Giant, who unexpectedly spirits a little girl named Sophie out of bed, and into the land of the child-eating giants.A monkey named Muggle-Wump also appears in The Enormous Crocodile. A monkey bearing resemblance to Quentin Blake's illustration of the same character also appears in The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. Roald Dahl's Completely Revolting Recipes: A Collection of Delumptious Favourites. Random House, 2 November 2009. A writing activity where that asks writers to make use of both showing and telling as they create a well-organized paragraph of description.