And also it’s about a bunch of monkeys that have been trapped in the Twit’s garden and they have to escape. I can imagine the hours of delight that rereading this would bring - as it did for my goddaughter when she was about 9 or 10. The Twits was adapted for the stage in 2007 and an animated film adaptation, directed by Phil Johnston, is scheduled for release in 2025. Twit are putting all their weight down on the heads and catch the 'Dreaded Shrinks'- with their bodies compressing 'downwards'. In 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown, a theatrical reading of The Twits was performed at London's Unicorn Theatre directed by Ned Bennett and performed by Zubin Varla and Martina Laird.

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Twit), a spiteful, idle, unkempt couple who continuously play nasty practical jokes on each other to amuse themselves, and exercise their devious wickedness on their pet monkeys.

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. However, the small and vulnerable triumph through cleverness and trickery, proving that no matter how small you are and whatever odds are against you, being smart will help you win the day. The Roly-Poly bird then offers to fly the Muggle-Wumps all the way back to Africa, and the Muggle-Wumps escape. A second production of The Twits adapted by Enda Walsh and directed by John Tiffany was performed at London's Royal Court Theatre in 2015, running from 07 April - 31 May.In a time of children preferring their digital toys seemingly over anything else, what could be more encouraging? The decision was met with sharp criticism from groups and public figures including authors Salman Rushdie [8] [9] and Christopher Paolini, [10] British prime minister Rishi Sunak, [8] [9] Queen Camilla, [8] [11] [12] Kemi Badenoch, [13] PEN America, [8] [9] and Brian Cox. The Twits, who are retired circus trainers, are trying to create the first upside-down monkey circus.

The monkeys try to warn the birds before they land on the tree, but the English-speaking birds do not understand the monkeys' African language. On a Tuesday night, a group of four boys see the ladder next to this tree and they decided to walk up into it, not thinking or knowing that glue was on it. Usually by Christmas time, half of my kids are walking around showing off their entire Roald Dahl box sets.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.