Horrid Henry's Big Bad Book: Ten Favourite Stories - and More! - Francesca Simon

Advantages: Encourages a love of reading.
Disadvantages: Can cause bad behaviour.

...of the teachers in my daughter's school, who more closely resemble Miss Lovely (Peter's teacher), but I have distant memories of my own primary school teacher who was just as fierce as Miss Oddbod. Again the reader has a lot of sympathy for Henry when he goes up against his teacher. Horrid Henry's 2008 Annual I bought this annual just before Christmas. It was on special offer - buy 2 annuals for £8. So, it cost just £4, which I felt was a bit of a bargain. The annual is written by Francesca Simon (the author of the series of books) and illustrated by Tony Ross (who also illustrates the books). The contents page is very long, showing just how much they have managed to cram into this slim hard-backed annual. As well as showing the contents of each page, there are sharp toothed insects crawling over the page which has a large yellow... Read review

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Advantages: Very entertaining easy to read stories.
Disadvantages: none

...Horrid Henry’s Nits by Francesca Simon Although there are at least ten books in the Horrid Henry series, Horrid Henry’s Nits was the first book we bought for our son and the one that introduced us the wonderful world of Horrid Henry. Henry is a lovable little rogue, probably aged about nine who lives with his long suffering parents who are never actually named but simply called mum and dad throughout. There is also his often-tormented younger brother Perfect Peter. While being selfish, cunning and usually obnoxious Henry is more mischievous than evil. The slightly younger Peter on the other hand is perfect in every way and the ideal foil for Henry’s antics. Henry actually sold Peter to his neighbour and classmate Moody Margaret as her slave in one tale which gives you an idea of the scale of things. Each book... Read review

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Advantages: A great read for children
Disadvantages: None.....reading is good for kids!

...This is one of 10 books in the Horrid Henry series that I bought for my son this Christmas. I bought them as part of a pack of 10 for only £9.99 from a book club which visits the primary school I work in….They leave a selection of books for you to browse and order from, I am sure it was The Book People ( www.bookpeople.co.uk ) but cannot be 100% sure as I have visited the website and cannot find this offer available now. You can however still buy this book on it's own and in the 10 pack from various websites like Amazon and Ebay, prices starting from about £1.99 for the single book and from about £9.99 + p&p for the multi pack. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Francesca Simon *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* A little bit about the author…. She was born in USA and went to Yale and Oxford Universities. She was a freelance journalist for 10 years... Read review

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