The Twits the Minpins & the Magic Finger

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Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly SeussianHis stories work better in audio than in print. The New York Times THE TWITS How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest nastiest ugliest people in the world. They hate everythingexcept playing mean jokes on each other catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies and making their caged monkeys the Muggle-Wumps stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. They dont just want out they want revenge. THE MINPINS Little Billy strays into the forest where he meets the Minpins?tiny people who live within the trees. The Minpins tell Billy about The Gruncher who preys on them. So Billy embarks on a mission to rid the Minpins of their foe once and for all and sets off?on the back of a swan?to confront The Gruncher. THE MAGIC FINGER What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted? To the Gregg family hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door its just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them. When shes very very angry the little girls Magic Finger takes over. She really cant control it and now its turned the Greggs into birds! Before they know it the Greggs are living in a nest and thats just the beginning of their problems.