Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb

Horrid Henry #10

by Francesca Simon

A stinkbomb becomes a deadly weapon in Horrid Henry's long-running war with Moody Margaret; he uses all his guile to win the school reading competition, only to find the longed-for prize is not what he expected; he goes for a sleepover and retreats in horror when he finds that other people's houses aren't always as nice as his own; and he has the joy of seeing Miss Battle-Axe ticked off by the Head when he knows it was all his fault. In short, another vintage HORRID HENRY title!

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Humor, Juvenile, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Comedy

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

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

[Göktuğ Aktepe · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was so funny

[LosingHope · Rating 3 out of 5]

3⭐/5

Jedna z pierwszych wypożyczonych książek z biblioteki szkolnej, więc mam do niej dość wielki sentyment, choć mówiąc szczerze, nawet wtedy nie cierpiałam postaci Karolka. Wiem też jednak, że wówczas podobały mi się jego przygody i pokazany humor, stąd zostawiam ocenę, jaką też wcześniej postawiłam ów książce na innym portalu (lcz).

(aktualizuję gr i dodaję książki od samego początku zapisywania)

[Boran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Çok komikti okurken keyif aldım

[Reelika Raimet · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[౨ৎ elsie ⋆｡˚ · Rating 5 out of 5]

dziewczeca potrzeba czytania

[Isaac Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this book so much! My favourite chapter was number three. Horrid Henry Is my favourite type of book.

[Chancellor Burgess · Rating 5 out of 5]

I chose this book because my mom recommend this book to me and i like the cover and the word stink bomb.I did not see the movie because i don't know if there is one and if there was i would go see it.I loved the setting a lot.It was described very well you could picture it in your head.But you don't feel like you are in the book though.I like other books that have the same setting as this one.I loved the characters and loved Horrid Henry the most he is funny and dumb sometimes.I did not like Moody Margret she is a brat right?Henry and Margret did not like each other.I loved the book so much i rated it 5 STARS!I would recommend this book to a friend in a hart beat!My favorite part of the book was when Henry set off a stink bomb in Margret's tent it was funny.

[Saee :) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dead fish and Rotten eggs stinkbomb?
Dreadful!
And then having their victory drinks Dungeon drink spiked?
Awful.
New Nick's family is noiser than Henry.
And Lispy Lily was Henry's personal nightmare.
It was fun seeing Henry out of depth for once.

[Ursula · Rating 3 out of 5]

hhaha these books are great and I will continue to read them again and again because they are simply fantastic and I love them so much because they make me laugh so much

[Farhana Sufi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was looking for an author with my initials for a Book Club challenge, when a friend suggested Francesca Simon and her Horrid Henry.

Henry is a regular horrid boy in a regular British school. And this book tells his 4 horrible adventures(?) with his school mates.

It was quite amusing to read of Henry's horridness. I hope he grows up well! But also look forward to read more of his horrid stories. :D

[Faterider · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lively writing, and boisterous boys will be eager to find out just to what extent Horrid Henry can get away with abominable behaviour. Unfortunately, I found the stories forgettable. Aside from him creating fake book reviews to emerge tops in a reading competition, I forgot the stories as soon as I finished reading the book.

(Still, I teach third graders English, and it was a pleasure to come across some of their vocabulary words: rumble, snarl, scream)

[Devin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn’t read the last story because I already read it and I liked all the other three chapters because they were utterly wicked and it was very cool because on the third story, they were practicing and studying about the Egyptians and it was very good.

[Kylie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it.

[sophie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another hilarious yet a bit rude book

[Terry]

We've got a review of this easy reader import at the Reading Tub.

[Isabelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

That was a supper good book

[Sohema · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was amazing

[Gabby · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow! The gift that keeps on giving

[Emmeline Wylie · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was so funny

[julia. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Polecam jak najbardziej. Cudowna książka opisująca życie Karolka. I ta scena z bombą haha ❤️ uśmiałam się do łez .

[DayBooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

I Think the book was Fun and exciting! I hope others like it too!

[marcelo f moreira]

Cool

[zia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this would be good when I was obsessed with this serious but I really like it still

[Lorna Dounaeva · Rating 4 out of 5]

My son enjoyed this.

[Maria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good for the age group. And for reluctant readers. Funny.

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

If I remeber corectly he wanted to stinkbomb them but it went agenst him

[Ethan Allison Emily · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'd give this book 0 stars if I could. It was the worst book I've ever read and I actually regret reading it to my 6yo. The book says that it has laugh-out-loud stories. I didn't laugh once. In fact, I was appalled that anyone would think it was funny. The only thing the author got right is that Henry truly is horrid. Children don't need to be reading books about this kind of behavior....and worst, to think it's funny.



In the first story, Henry cheats and lies about a reading contest and nothing ever happens to him. Sure, he didn't get the prize he thought he would but he never paid a price for his bad behavior.

In the second story, the first sentence starts with I HATE YOU. That's not a phrase we welcome in our house. There was also a lot of name calling and going behind backs and just overall rude behavior.

In the third story, Henry has to work on a school project. He ends up working alone because he whines an acts horribly and then goes around and steals from all the other kids(their projects get ruined). The teacher has finally had it and yells at him(rightfully so) and SHE is sent to the principal's office. Nothing happens to Henry. How this is funny or something a kid should think they could get away with is beyond me.

In the fourth story, Henry gets invited to a sleepover and he can't wait to go so he can ruin their furniture and eat all their candy. Of course it backfires but his attitude doesn't change.

There are NOOOOOO consequences in this book. Not one. He never gets in trouble. His mom just yells at him to stop and he never does. Are you kidding me? I don't care if I want my kids to read or not. This is not the behavior that should be glamorized or laughed about. I was shocked at all the comments at the front of the book by parents and teachers about how wonderful the book was and it's always nice to know there is a kid worse out there than yours. Good grief. How do you think kids get this way? These books sure won't help. We won't be reading any of these again.

I wouldn't recommend them to anyone. I had to spend more time that it took to read it, going over why these behaviors aren't acceptable. I should have quit after the first page.

[Suphia Ansari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although the Horrid Henry series is not a personal recommendation but my daughter is a huge fan. Here is one from the collection we recently read together. Key stage one children seem to be addicted to these books but if it gets them to enjoy reading then it is fine by me.

A stinkbomb becomes a deadly weapon in Horrid Henry's long-running war with Moody Margaret; he uses all his power to win the school reading competition, only to find the longed-for prize is not what he expected; he goes for a sleepover and retreats in horror when he finds that other people's houses aren't always as nice as his own; and he has the joy of seeing Miss Battle-Axe ticked off by the Head when he knows it was all his fault.

[LeeAnn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Once again, I find myself reading Horrid Henry. I have loved some of these, and hated others. This one falls right in the middle. I really like the first and third stories (especially the silly slapping incident, heehee) but the second one was just annoying instead of funny, and the final story was just weird (not in a good way). This series has been frustrating to read -- some have been wonderful, some have been terrible, and some -- like this one -- are just okay. *sigh*

[Kathy Chung · Rating 2 out of 5]

this is the 4th or 5th book that i have read in this series.

sorry to say that the stories getting to be repetitious. Henry being horrid /naughty. he uses his brain to achieve what he wanted but he always end up being the loser.

for those who read this book as 1st or 2nd book of this series , i would say it worth 3 or 4 stars but after reading few similar plot.....i hope subsequent book will have some changes