A Helping of Horrid Henry : Horrid Henry's Nits', 'Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick', 'Horrid Henry's Haunted House

Horrid Henry #4-6

by Francesca Simon

Bumper collection of three books in a top-selling series about an awesomely naughty child

Genres: Childrens

272 pages, Paperback

First published July 5, 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

[fantasticcolorcloudflap · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un libro divertido para pasar el rato

[Julius · Rating 5 out of 5]

hi everyone. horrid henry 3 in 1 is REALLY good because its really FUNNY. I read it at my high school on Thursday (that's when I got the book) and we were reading for an hour. I started reading it from a short period of time and I thought to myself that the book is really good. I got really addicted to the book too. and I also read this book in 1 WHOLE DAY.


I rate this book a 5. 10/10

you should try and get the book as soon as possible

[Sankhalp · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book was a collection of fantastic stories. All the stories were very very funny. Hats off!

[Elani · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did not enjoy "Horrid Henry". He was portrayed as a miserable little boy and seen and judged as such automatically by everybody in his life.

He plays tricks on everybody, is self-centred and selfish.

Henry has an obnoxious little brother, Perfect Peter, and of course no matter who started the fight Henry was by default the culprit.

I did like the names of the characters - all alliteration with their characters: Horrid Henry,
little brother Perfect Peter (*will he grow up to be gay?*)
class mates: Rude Ralph, Weepy William, Moody Margaret, Sour Susan, Anxious Andrew...

I don't like it if the main character is mean and horrid. I guess some little boys may identify with it. Still learning what age group it will be appropriate for.

The black line illustrations by Tony Ross is appropriate and portrays the theme of the story very well.

[Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great Horrid Henry book, there’s Miss Battle-Axe, Nits (I always had nits as a kid 😂) Henry pretending to be ‘a boa constrictor throttling his prey’, oh and ‘an Indian warrior scalping a settler’ which is a bit 😬 And he attempted to run away to the Congo with a bag full of junk, sounds like something I’d do as a kid too lol 😂 OH and it’s GREAT AUNT GRETA who calls Henry ‘Henrietta’, I made the mistake of thinking it was Grandma 😅 But yeah, other than the unfortunate ‘Indian warrior’ line it’s another great book for kids!

[Kendra Francois · Rating 4 out of 5]

horrid henry was so bad beaved

[Shaikha · Rating 3 out of 5]

I rated it based on 3 years ago me