Down in their garden, the ghastly, evil Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family locked in a cage. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. 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.

By January 2012, the official site of Vanguard Animation stated that Conrad Vernon, the director of Shrek 2 (2004) and Monsters vs. Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. And also it’s about a bunch of monkeys that have been trapped in the Twit’s garden and they have to escape.Twit are putting all their weight down on the heads and catch the 'Dreaded Shrinks'- with their bodies compressing 'downwards'.

Since February 2003, a feature film adaptation of the book has been in development by Vanguard Animation and its founder John H.In November 2004, Mark Mylod signed up to direct the feature, while Cleese was attached to star in the film. The Twits are so ghastly and evil that they even keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family captive in their garden. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Albeit, while she frequently demonstrates acts of stupidity, she has also exhibited intelligence: she managed to manoeuvre her way out of being carried off into the sky by balloons by chewing through several of the strings and landing safely on the ground. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

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. In April 1999, a theatrical musical adaptation by Justin Pearson (general manager and the artistic director of the UK's National Symphony Orchestra) and actress Anne Collis, directed by Michael Dineen was presented at The Questors Theatre in Ealing, West London. Twit up in the garden to 60 gas balloons intending to leave her there for a while to teach her a lesson. In fact, I think the brilliance of Dahl’s writing is how it manages to present all these characters, even the walk-on ones like the postman, and the unfortunate boys who almost get baked in a pie, fully formed, and how it gets the reader wondering about their backstories.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'. Because the monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits and make their escape, once and for all.