Roald Dahl, "The Twits"

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Roald Dahl has writewrotewritten�a lot of very funny books for children. We have just readreadread�The Twits� which is a book about a horrid old couple. It is not easy to�understandunderstoodunderstood how somebody can be as mean towards each other as those two! �Roald Dahl has�drawdrewdrawn a picture of some unlovable old people. �Last week when we�readreadread the book, we all the time saw how beastly they behaved. They never�speakspokespoken to anybody outside their house. We also got to know how unfriendly they�speakspokespoken to each other as well! I am quite sure they have never�speakspokespoken one friendly word to each other for several years. Roald Dahl has understood how to�writewrotewritten books for children in order to make them laugh a lot! This he understood several years ago, because this is not the only book he has writewrotewritten.

In addition to the text, Quentin Blake has illustrated some of the books. He�drawdrewdrawn some very good drawings, where we see Mr. and Mrs. Twit as ugly as we imagine through the stories. Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake have probably�speakspokespoken at lot about how the characters should look like. The illustrator�understandunderstoodunderstood what Roald Dahl meant when he�writewrotewritten about a twit.

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