Horrid Henry's Revenge

Horrid Henry #8

by Francesca Simon, Tony Ross (Illustrator)

A brilliant collection of four stories about this favourite character - one of the few new characters to have emerged in recent years for this age group. Wickedly subversive, hilariously funny and bang up to date, Horrid Henry's fame is spreading. In this collection, enhanced by Miranda Richardson's brilliant reading and really horrid music and sound effects, Henry accompanies his father to the office, hacks into his parents' computer, meets the Demon Dinner Lady and plans the ultimate revenge on Perfect Peter.

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Chapter Books, Humor

86 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Francesca Simon grew up in California and attended both Yale and Oxford Universities, where she specialised in Medieval Studies. How this prepared her to write children’s books she cannot imagine, but it did give her a thorough grounding in alliteration.

She then threw away a lucrative career as a medievalist and worked as a freelance journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph, and Vogue (US). After her son Joshua was born in 1989, she started writing children’s books full time. One of the UK’s best-selling children’s writers, Francesca has published over 50 books, including the immensely popular HORRID HENRY series, which has now sold over twelve million copies.

Francesca won the Children’s Book of the Year in 2008 at the British Book Awards for Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman. HORRID HENRY is published in 24 countries and is also an animated CITV series. She lives in London with her husband, son, and Tibetan Spaniel, Shanti.

Reviews

[Darshana Jain · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this book because it has a little mystery and thriller and when he took the revenge with peter i liked the most. I will recommend it to everyone who like funny stories

[Sofie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Frekke Fredrik er min favorittkarakter

[fatema !]

finally read my amazing birthday gift from the lovely warisha :3
i was slightly concerned for her mental wellbeing the whole time but overall silly read i giggled

[sophie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Once again hilarious
I don't know how Francesca Simon does it!

[Christopher Byram · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this when I was a child, funny book.

[Reelika Raimet · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Maja · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5

[Becca Talemaimaleya · Rating 4 out of 5]

My daughter loves these books and alternates between being Horrid Henry & Perfect Peter.

I love the Perfect Peter days! Lol

[George Lathwell · Rating 5 out of 5]

still a classic

[Matt Davies · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book contains four stories in which Henry wreaks his terrible revenge on those he feels have done him wrong. The first thing that struck me about this book was that the volume level is incredibly high; everyone shouts, screams, shrieks or howls and there seem to be a lot of exclamation marks. The second thing was how extraordinarily negative the behaviour modeled in this book is; adults or children it makes no difference. Anyone who shows any positive behaviour patterns is ridiculed and punished. Now, I'm not suggesting that children will necessarily mimic this behaviour, but it must to some degree contribute to normalising it. Also, I didn't find it to be either well written or funny (I mean isn't it just a Dennis the Menace rip off?), so didn't find much to enjoy about this book. In school it could be used for independent reading in situations where everyone is reading in class, but I'm not sure if I'd want to use it in a whole class setting.

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a humorous book which perceived Henry to be a very mischievous but a determined individual who wanted to get his revenge on his brother Perfect Peter and Bossy Bill who never got the blame for anything. He achieved this revenge on each event by being very sneaky and clever with his actions which would keep the reader engaged to see if his plan has been achieved.

I liked that the author used many alliterative nicknames which made the characters names memorable and funny which I felt met the purpose of the book which would engage the children in the correct manner.

I would recommend this book for 7+ years because of the simplistic language used throughout and having the ability to understand Henry's method of humour and revenge throughout the book.

[Ac123]

This book is about a kid named Henry. His parents, classmates, and friends call him horrid Henry, and he is just that. He hits, kicks, and pulls the hair of anyone, he earned his horrid name. Henry gets his revenge on his brother, because his brothers name is perfect Pete. Henry hates his brother so he plays a dirty trick on him. I wont tell you what he does, I will just tell you its bad. You have to read the book and find out.

[Nouri · Rating 2 out of 5]

The same as Hored Henrys.

[Max R. · Rating 4 out of 5]

very funny!!!I can't really remember what happened as I read it ages ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Valeria Flores · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was cool

[Mikhail J · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is overall one my favourite out of the whole series. Henry wants get revenge and you know what happens when there revenge appears....... Yup it is not pretty.

[Aimee · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book involves

Horrid henry
Perfect peter
Moody margaret
Sour susan
Rude ralph

[Seungmin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mwahahahahaha! A very good book ^-^

[Nobody]

I Loved This Book, Very Funny!! For All Ages

[Riko Dambara · Rating 1 out of 5]

I think this author should add more details. But my little sister likes it so I like it too! Thank you for making this book.

[Rohit Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

very good

[Oliver · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was good and a little bit bad. I didn't like the Fairy story.

[Dua Bokae · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing book gets you feel happy

[Isabel Graham · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this a exultant book