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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
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by Mrs. Twit. 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. Twit said that he will make boy pie instead of bird pie. It is this use of glue that gives the captive monkey
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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.
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In her right hand she carried a walking stick. Not because she needed help walking. 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.
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the floor, as well as all of the tables, chairs, and other objects in the house, and uses Mr. Twit's glue to stick the objects upside down to the ceiling, leaving the floor absolutely bare.
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feet. Their feet shrink into nothing but two pairs of shoes and old clothes. Mr. and Mrs. Twit are then nowhere to be seen. Their absence is promptly celebrated by everyone.
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survey of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time. In 2012, the titular Twits appeared on a
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Honeycombe-Foster, Matt; Blanchard, Jack (21 February 2023).
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set to produce. As part of a multi-picture deal with
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Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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on the branches. Captive birds are then made into a
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1961:The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
1260:Mark Mylod set to direct Roald Dahl's The Twits
873:"The 100 greatest children's books of all time"
773:"10 Roald Dahl moments to inspire generations"
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1234:Brodesser, Claude (4 February 2003).
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798:"The Big Read – Top 100 Books"
680:Relations to other Roald Dahl books
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16:1980 children's novel by Roald Dahl
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2512:Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre
2500:Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
2271:The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
1945:Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl
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2100:Memories with Food at Gipsy House
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1806:The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
1758:Danny, the Champion of the World
1515:. Random House, 2 November 2009.
1006:. Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
846:Flood, Alison (9 January 2012).
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1985:More Tales of the Unexpected
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2330:Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
2076:Boy: Tales of Childhood
2068:The Mildenhall Treasure
2025:The Roald Dahl Treasury
1977:Tales of the Unexpected
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2041:Skin and Other Stories
1993:The Roald Dahl Omnibus
1969:The Best of Roald Dahl
1766:The Enormous Crocodile
714:The Enormous Crocodile
692:The Enormous Crocodile
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2575:Wade-Dahl-Till valve
1484:"Watch Roald Dahl's
620:The Questors Theatre
553:Walt Disney Pictures
411:Rescuing the Animals
366:horror and disgust.
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2322:You Only Live Twice
2263:Matilda the Musical
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1328:Total Sci-Fi Online
1100:. London, England.
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652:In 2020 during the
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624:Ealing, West London
591:Monsters vs. Aliens
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361:The Wormy Spaghetti
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1415:Animation Magazine
1358:Vanguard Animation
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2407:Fantastic Mr. Fox
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