But the real reason she carried a stick was so that she could hit things with it, things like dogs and cats and small children.

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.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". The story is about a family of unfortunate monkeys held in a cage by the frankly horrible Mr and Mrs Twit; a not-too-intelligent couple who delight in playing cruel pranks on one another.

Twit, in retaliation, spreads glue on the monkeys' cage (which serves as a substitute perch), the monkeys alter the warning. 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. Down in their garden, the ghastly, evil Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family locked in a cage. Twit pretends to tie some more strings to her ankles, before cutting through the strings and sending her skywards. Dahl's publishers in the United States, France, and the Netherlands declined to incorporate the changes.By January 2012, the official site of Vanguard Animation stated that Conrad Vernon, the director of Shrek 2 (2004) and Monsters vs. 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. Twit is a wicked person, having hair that covers his entire face, with the exception of his forehead, eyes, and nose. The Twits are so ghastly and evil that they even keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family captive in their garden. Their head shrinks into their neck, their necks shrink into their bodies, their bodies shrink into their legs, and their legs shrink into their feet.

Few other children's books would have horrible men sticking glue on trees so that they can 'harvest' all the unfortunate birds who roosted there for the night and turn them into a revolting 'bird pie'.To keep their heads glued to the ground, two birds will put a small amount of glue on the Twits' heads right before they enter the house so that when they stand on their heads, they will be stuck. During their absence on this errand, Muggle-Wump plots a final trick: to turn the Twits' house upside down. 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. Usually by Christmas time, half of my kids are walking around showing off their entire Roald Dahl box sets.