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".

Twit feel that she is shrinking, he slowly extended her chair and cane until she was convinced that she was getting shorter. I've heard from some quarters the criticism that Roald Dahl's books are often too dark and should therefore not be read to children.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. 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. Down in their garden, the ghastly, evil Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family locked in a cage. In October 2006, after the executive/regime changes at Disney, the project moved to Working Title and Universal.

Because the monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits and make their escape, once and for all. She used to tell people that this was because she had warts growing on the sole of her left foot and walking was painful. A hideous, vindictive, spiteful married couple known as the Twits live together in a brick house without windows. Because he never washes it, his beard holds scraps of food stuck there while he ate, including tinned sardines, Stilton cheese, and corn flakes.In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration. The idea of The Twits was triggered by Dahl's desire to 'do something against beards', because he had an acute hatred of them. Twit up in the garden to 60 gas balloons intending to leave her there for a while to teach her a lesson.