Horrid Henry's Underpants: Early Reader

Horrid Henry Early Reader #5

by Francesca Simon

Horrid Henry reaches a younger generation of readers in a newly illustrated version of 'Horrid Henry's Underpants', which has been divided into easily digestible chapters.

Paperback

Published November 1, 2009

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

[Madeleine]

I LOVED this book it was really funny. I thought it was the best book I have ever read. I liked the bit where he put on the girls underwear - it was really funny.

[Leona Jasmin]

A quick fun read

[Alice]

I picked this up in the Heathrow Airport and read it on the plane! Excellent! I bought it for my friend's daughter (My friend is from England) but lives in the USA . She is going into 2nd grade and is quite the reader...so I thought I would get a book with British flair. It is a fun story, with uniquely British words and I enjoyed it. I think boys and girls will like it. Horrid Henry is a whole big series and I am going to see if our library has it and or will buy them! It is a good time and a fun read! I want to read more Horrid Henry :-D