Horrid Henry And The Abominable Snowman

Horrid Henry #16

by Francesca Simon

Four brand new stories to add to your Horrid Henry collection.

Genres: Childrens, Humor, Chapter Books, Fiction, Audiobook, Collections, Middle Grade

86 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2007

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

[Huda Shahid · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun read

[Arnavjit Sachdeva · Rating 4 out of 5]

A totally hilarious book .Has a light hearted tone that might not be liked by everyone.

[Mark Rasem · Rating 4 out of 5]

Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman by Francesca Simon
One of the highly acclaimed “Horrid Henry” series, this edition features the aforementioned “Abominable Snowman” as one of four short stories within the book.
Being my first experience of reading a “Horrid Henry” and with little prior knowledge, my only inkling as to what to expect was that the book was likely to centre around the goings on of a mischievous central character and his humorous misadventures.
What I discovered was four genuinely funny and enjoyable tales of Horrid Henry’s escapades of teasing his brother, “Perfect Peter”, and getting into scrapes that invariably tend back – fire.
“The Abominable Snowman” demonstrates this through Henry sabotaging his brother’s snowman by sneakily placing it on top of his own creation in order to have the biggest snowman in the neighbourhood and potentially beat off the competition, amongst whom includes Moody Margeret and Sour Susan, to claim the prize of a year’s free ice cream for the best snowman, courtesy of the local ice cream parlour.
This ends in disaster for Henry as the snowmen across the neighbourhood all melt over night. All except Perfect Peter’s which managed to stand tall after being placed at the very top of Henry’s very own creation.
The cleverly endearing alliteration of character’s names is a common theme throughout, “Stuck Up Steve” being another example.
This helped to add the likeability of the character’s, as well as the stories themselves, which all have an overriding moral to be learned and gave me clear indication as to why Francesca Simon’s “Horrid Henry” collection has been such a hit with children and parents alike.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Henry is horrid and his neighbor is Moody Margaret and poor, poor little brother Peter. Good for begining readers who like a little naughty to chew on.

[Bookish Devil · Rating 1 out of 5]

I would never recommend this book to any of the kids/children. Horrid Henry sets a very bad example and I hate the fact that he makes cruel and nasty jokes on his family & friends, hurting their feelings in the process.

Portraying such naughty acts as funny and cool isn't a good thing.

The character and attitude of children are shaped by what they read,see and hear. I don't think they would learn any good values from the Horrid Henry book series. They might try to imitate Henry in real life and end up hurting their near and dear ones.

Sighh !! I don't think even the 10 year old version of myself would enjoy the books of this series.

#FeelingLetDown

[Ms. B · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hopefully school aged children enjoy these stories about the unlikable (IMO) Henry more than me. I think I would have liked it more if not all of the characters had names with alliteration (Sour Susan, Moody Margaret, Perfect Peter, Rude Ralph, Goody Goody Gordon, etc.)
Fans of Junie B. Jones who are looking for something new to read (and who I can appreciate) may enjoy this.

[Prince Faisal II · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book with the intention of understanding every single word. I learnt one new word = indignantly.
The book was a classic horrid henry book, I laughed at some of the things henry says , pretty funny.

[Kornelia Stark · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was two books in one but it would be unreasonable for me to mark it as two, so I also kind of read: “A horrid factbook: horrid henry’s dinosaurs”

Don’t judge me for reading this, nostalgia is hitting me hard

[Saee :) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here's my order for Frosty Freeze Icecream

- Tripple Fudge Gooey Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Marshmellow Custard Icecream

-Chunky chocolate fab fudge caramel delight
-Vanilla Whip Tutti Frutti Toffee Treat

2nd story didn't have a dynamic plot.It was more of thoughts and less of action.

[Chelsea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid kid's book. My cousin (7 years old) loved it.

[Eloise Sunshine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just can't believe how the book ended - it is impossible, but Henry was actually nice :P. Oh, well, him waking up feeling excited and happy was already strange enough :D

[Joe Cleary · Rating 4 out of 5]

had to sleep with me mum for 5 week cos the snowman scared me a bit to much

[sophie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love horrid Henry!

[Reelika Raimet · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Gabby · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the book about Henry settling down with his favourite author. I hope some of my chatty kids will do that one day in my classroom

[Melissa]

Horrid

[Mark Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 short stories about 25 pages long each. Quick fun reads. The usual horrid Henry format!

[Eshal khannnn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book 💋

[lisete · Rating 2 out of 5]

miks vanemad oma lastel lugeda lasevad seda

[Laddo · Rating 5 out of 5]

CHILDHOOD CLASSIC!

[Lori Gibson · Rating 5 out of 5]

horrid henry is such an inspiration for children to look up to, however pissy peter is a wee rat who cannot have any fun ever honestly ruin the whole boob, i hate that wee curly wurly.

[Seth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really entertaining book (Read early reader edition)

[Cindy Hudson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Horrid Henry is back and he’s up to mischief again. This time he’s trying to win a year’s worth of treats from a local ice cream parlor, getting into trouble on a boring rainy day, giving makeovers, and listening to his favorite author in Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman.

Author Francesca Simon and illustrator Tony Ross have again brought Henry to life with all his impish ways and devilish plots that somehow don’t work out the way he planned. Once again, young readers should delight in this chapter book. And I could certainly identify with Henry’s desire to listen to his favorite author read from her work. Horrid Henry is lots of fun.

[Alena · Rating 4 out of 5]

We didn't like the cover story (the first one) very much.

2. Grázlik Gabo a daždivý deň - keď sa nedá byť na počítači ani pozerať telka, najlepšie je potrápiť mladšieho brata... "Prezývky, ktoré nemám rád"

3. Škola krásy Náladovej Nade - this is quite weak story and, repeating in ideas

4. Grázlik Gabo a návšteva v škole "Grázlik Gabo sa zobudil. Cítil sa zvláštne.... Tešil sa." - a skoro mu to nevyšlo. Toto bolo napínavé, vynaliezavé. Spisovateľka Bublina (ten preklad je senzačný. Ako klaviristka slečna Bombasta v tanečnej škole.)

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a prospective primary education teacher, I am always looking into the children's books and seeing what would be good in a classroom and what is not.

Horrid Henry always goes down well in the classroom, there are obvious morals to the Horrid Henry: manners and the rules of life are common traits throughout these books.

This one is no exception, it is a delightful book for young children and makes the adults smile as well.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Silly does not automatically mean funny. Low quality stories with low quality drawings abusing the little children who don't know stuff like the snowman on top would have melted first as it was more exposed to the light. And the parents end up giving bad example to their own children: the unpleasant boy is hit over and over by everybody turning him more into a bully, but hey, god wanted people to have free will, right?

[Kristina · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't enjoy it at all. Some stories felt like there was no ending and I really could not like Henry. Roald Dahl and David Walliams are doing a much better job writing children books.
I decided to give the author a chance because I thought she'd be similar to David Walliams but boy how wrong I was.
Maybe my 6 year old self would have found a way to like this book.

[Connor Mcgregor · Rating 4 out of 5]

The horrid henry series has been really funny and interesting, especially this book. I is about a boy called henry, he always pranks people and annoyed his little brother. this book is about him trying to win a snowman competition to win a years serply of ice cream.

[LeeAnn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really liked this book -- except the last chapter/story. The snowman story is original, funny, and creative. The rainy day story is fine. The makeover story has a great twist ending. But the last one fell flat. So, two stars for this book.

[Jess Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Class Loved this on - even more scamp type activity than usual