The Swaddle: Payal Kapadia’s Less-Horrid Sequel to ‘Horrid High’

Gone are the Scumbags, Lowlifes, Dimwits and Nincompoops. The houses at HorridHigh have been renamed. The school is no longer horrid. Ferg Gottin and his friendsFermina Filch, Immy Tate and Phil Fingersmith are back for another year at HorridHigh, and they’re happier than they can remember ever being.

The school’s horridprincipal and staff are gone. Kind Granny Grit is the new principal of the school,where the students are allowed to laugh, play and have fun. The children are nolonger forced...