Krazy Ketchup

Horrid Henry #23

by Francesca Simon, Tony Ross (Illustrator)

Number One for Fiendish Fun! Horrid Henry takes on TWO babysitters in KRAZY KETCHUP!This book contains an angry babysitter, a MAD movie, SQUIRTY ketchup and a pet chicken!Illustrated by Tony Ross, these timeless stories offer an irresistible introduction to reading for pleasure, featuring one of the best-loved characters in children's fiction.

Genres: Childrens, Humor

145 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 5, 2014

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

[give me books · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cudowny powrót do dzieciństwa ❤️❤️❤️

[Frankie Rufolo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I remember thinking that the Horrid Henry books had seriously gone downhill after a certain point in the series but during my time on work experience at my old primary school I discovered that kids still love all these books just as much as me and my friends used to. Nearly half the class was reading a Horrid Henry book and it may not be as challenging as Rowling or Tolkein, I probably wouldn't even call it a timeless classic or anything but it makes them laugh, it keeps them reading and that's what matters.

[Jack Farnell · Rating 4 out of 5]

After growing up and watching Horrid Henry on TV as a child, it was great to finally get to read a Horrid Henry book. I loved that there were four short stories that made it feel like the episodes on TV and I got the exact same vibe and could hear the voices of the characters through the way this was written. Fantastically humorous and was a great and easy read. Suited towards middle to upper primary school children.

Favourite Quote: "Yum. Yum. Yummm. Krazy Ketchup. The nicest two words in the English language. (Apart from chocolate, pizza, burger, chips, make your own hot fudge sundae, and no school today)." Page 59.

[Farah · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 6 year old and I read this book together. I thought I’d seen all there was to see when it came to Horrid Henry. I think we’ve rewatched all the episodes a ridiculous amount of times. It shouldn’t be a particular surprise that when my son saw the books at our local library that we ended up bringing 2 home with us (if he’d had his way it would have been many more). Luckily for me this book had some stories that we hadn’t seen in the episodes and I felt like we got a little more out of the stories as well. Expect to see many more horrid Henry books in my future reads

[John Naylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

4 more Horrid Henry stories.

The further you get into this series, the more you feel sorry for Henry. He mostly gets criticism not love from his parents. This is why he lashes out particularly at his brother. He doesn't get credit when he is clever. When he tries to be helpful or nice it is thrown back into his face.

All the stories in the series are readable. I don't think any of them are particularly bad. I also haven't found one in particular to recommend so far.

[Saee :) · Rating 5 out of 5]

What I learned:
Organic ketchup tastes blehhh
Henry is chicken when it comes to chickens.
Editing can make ' about your family ' movie interesting.
Cake taken away from bogey babysitters tastes sweeter and better.

[Paulína · Rating 5 out of 5]

Táto knižka je veľmi zaujímavá. Gabove výmysly sú veľmi zvláštne. Mne sa páčili najviac jeho huncútstva. Odporúčam Vám ju zasmejete sa a budete na ňu dlho spomínať. :-)

[Darine Yasser · Rating 5 out of 5]

So fun and interesting give you new vocabulary.
So good 👌👍

[Ilze Du Toit · Rating 3 out of 5]

Love love !!!

[Ashton · Rating 3 out of 5]

it was good but it was a little confusing. it was crazy everything was every where .there was a chicken ,ketchup and president of the school. it was good but not the best.

[Nishil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to read hehe

[Sawyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book I've ever read

[Fathya Prasojo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading childhood favs because life is stressing me out, and I need comfort

[Guna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ļoti forša grāmata iebilstu izlasīt

[Alia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny 👍

[Ella O' Brien · Rating 4 out of 5]

great book

Great book thought it was very funny . Go horrid Henry ! Wish it could be longer .
Still great book though

[Vanessa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought it was funny . 4 stories in 1 book brilliant.

[Abi · Rating 3 out of 5]

My little (he says he's not little) cousin lent me this and says I should rate it five stars instead.