Cannibal Curse

Horrid Henry

by Francesca Simon, Tony Ross (Illustrator)

Number One for Fiendish Fun!This book contains a bake-off, a HORRID guidebook, an EVIL girl and an ancient curse!Four utterly hilarious and totally brilliant Horrid Henry stories by Francesca Simon, with illustrations by Tony Ross. An irresistible introduction to reading for pleasure.

Genres: Childrens

145 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 16, 2015

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

[Emily May · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh. Never got the Horrid Henry thing when I was a kid myself and my son wasn't overly impressed either. There are three stories in this one and the first is the only one we found slightly good. Basically, Henry and Margaret each try to play horrible tricks on one another to win a bake-off and ruin the other's entry. It's good because their antics result in an epic fail for both of them and a win for Peter! Serves them right.

[Rafael · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the bit when Horrid Henry pretend
he shrunk Moody Margaret and Sour Susan's head.

[Zara Francis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Horrid Henry was very horrid to his little brother Peter.
I really enjoyed, it was very exciting. I love this whole series !

[John Naylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another 4 Horrid Henry stories.

There is a different type of story amongst them. I would hope that any child reading it wouldn't take it seriously. It did seem out of place.
The other stories had Henry being himself. It is easy to tell that he acts up as his parents only ever threaten him or punish him. They are very rarely involved in anything else with him. He lacks good attention so gets attention in other ways.

[Grace Johnston · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has 4 books in total inside it: Horrid Henry's Bake off,Horrid Henry's cannibal curse,Horrid Henry's extra horrid guide to perfect parents and Horrid Henry's bad book

[Paul Ashcroft · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it

I loved this book because of all the amazing language, the storyboard and the super funny and hilarious food fights

[Anu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the Horrid Henry series book with four stories which make you ache with laughter.

[Jai adlakha · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a good book
But light
Honestly read it for fun or as a pallet cleanser in between massive series
Captures the essence of the show perfectly

[Grace]

A great book really funny.

[W A · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best book ever!!! It sooooo funny I really like the book the most story I really like it is the third story.

[katie woods · Rating 5 out of 5]

👍

[Amelia Anderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some funny stories in this book! Especially the cake and head one! But not the best horrid Henry

[Michael B · Rating 4 out of 5]

Did not enjoy Chapter 3. It was rubbish