The Twits

Roald Dahl

(this is two of three - I just read all these to my youngest son over the past few weeks, so I'm listing them together now!)

Simply utterly one of the best by an always excellent writer. The Twits are chock full of delightful nastiness: Mr and Mrs Twit are simply the most deplorable and mean characters ever to grace the pages of children's literature. Their despicability (is that even a word?) is so complete and thorough that you can almost smell the bits of dried food in Mr Twit's beard or feel Mrs. Twit's old bones stretch as she's pulled toward the sky by the balloons. And this couple, with their hateful antics against each other, they certainly keep you turning page after page, and truly the only problem with this book is simply that it isn't long enough.

You must you must you must read this book.

Now, go!

VG