Horrid Henry

Series · 23

books · 1994-2014

By Tony Ross, Francesca Simon

Books in series

Horrid Henry

1994

Number One for Fiendish Fun!This book contains HIDEOUS behaviour, terrible dancing, disgusting glop and a trip to France!Four utterly hilarious and totally brilliant Horrid Henry stories by Francesca Simon, with illustrations by Tony Ross. An irresistible introduction to reading for pleasure.

Horrid Henry And The Secret Club

1995

Number One for Fiendish Fun! This book contains the FIENDISH Nurse Needle, a secret club, an ANNOYING brother and a birthday party! Four utterly hilarious and totally brilliant Horrid Henry stories by Francesca Simon, with illustrations by Tony Ross. An irresistible introduction to reading for pleasure.

Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy

2003

Henry is up to his horrid tricks again. He tries, and fails, to trick the tooth fairy, rids his family of an unwelcome houseguest and single-handedly creates havoc at Cousin Polly's wedding.

Horrid Henry's Nits

1997

Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick

2003

In this collection, Horrid Henry makes sure he gets the presents he wants for Christmas, sabotages the school sports, day, runs away from home, and thinks of a brilliant way to get rich quick - by selling off his little brother!

Horrid Henry's Haunted House

1999

Four new utterly wicked stories about a bestsellig character

Horrid Henry and the Mummy's Curse

2000

Seventh title in the hugely successful series

Horrid Henry's Revenge

2001

The eighth title in the fantastically successful Horrid Henry series

Horrid Henry and the Bogey Babysitter

2002

Horrid Henry comes roaring back in a new story collection

#10

Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb

2002

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!

#11

Horrid Henry's Underpants

2004

Contains the Horrid Henry stories: Horrid Henry Eats a Vegetable Horrid Henry's Underpants Horrid Henry's Sick Day Horrid Henry's Thank You Letter

#12

Horrid Henry Meets the Queen

2004

In these four stories the Queen is coming to visit Horrid Henry's school, he tries to hypnotise Moody Margaret, he tricks Perfect Peter into doing his household chores and Horrid Henry has a bath.

#13

Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine (Horrid Henry - book 13)

2005

Four fabulous stories in which Horrid Henry builds himself a time machine and tricks Perfect Peter; Perfect Peter strikes back; Henry dines at Restaurant Le Posh; and he is made to go on a hike.

#14

Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend

2006

Horrid Henry reads Perfect Peter's diary and improves it. He goes clothes shopping with Mum and tries to make her buy him some Rootatoot trainers. He is horrified when his old enemy Bossy Bill turns up at school. And he tries by any means, fair or foul, to win the class football match and defeat Moody Margaret.

#15

Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker

2006

Number One for Fiendish Fun! This book contains a school play, some stolen sweets, a visit from Father Christmas and a HELLISH dinner! Four utterly hilarious and totally brilliant Horrid Henry stories by Francesca Simon, with illustrations by Tony Ross. An irresistible introduction to reading for pleasure.

#16

Horrid Henry And The Abominable Snowman

2007

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

#17

Horrid Henry Robs The Bank

2008

Horrid Henry Robs the Bank by Francesca Simon [Paperback]

#18

Horrid Henry Wakes the Dead

2009

Horrid Henry finds a surefire way of wielding the remote control to ensure he always watches his programme of choice, vies with Moody Margaret to become the head of the school, shows off his prowess as a magician in the school talent show, and battles it out with Perfect Peter over who gets the green dinosaur and who gets the purple one.

#19

Horrid Henry

2010

Four new stories: Horrid Henry's Invasion - Horrid Henry and Perfect Peter keep invading each other's rooms. Moody Margaret's Sleepover - Moody Margaret invites all the members of the Secret Club for a sleepover, with catastrophic results. Horrid Henry's Autobiography - Miss Battle-Axe's class all have to write their autobiographies, the best to be published in the local paper. Horrid Henry Rocks - Horrid Henry wants to go to the Killerboy Rats concert while his family want to go to the Daffy and her Dancing Daisies concert.

#20

Horrid Henry and the Zombie Vampire

2011

Four new stories in which Horrid Henry terrorizes his classmates at a school sleepover in the museum; plays with Perfect Peter and tricks him into handing over all his money; gets out of writing his own story for Miss Battle-Axe by adapting one of Peter's; and meets the Nudie Foodie, a celebrity chef, who comes to the school to improve school dinners. No more burgers! No more chips!

#21

Horrid Henry's Monster Movie

2012

Contains four stories - Horrid Henry's Monster Movie, Horrid Henry's Horrid Weekend, Horrid Henry's Grump Card, Horrid Henry's Olympics.

#22

Horrid Henry's Nightmare

2013

Four new Horrid Henry stories - Horrid Henry's Nightmare, Horrid Henry and the Revenge of the Demon Dinner Lady, Fluffy Struts Her Stuff, and Horrid Henry's Mother's Day.

#23

Krazy Ketchup

2014

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.

Authors

Tony Ross

Author · 79 books

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. Tony Ross is a British illustrator and author of children's picture books. He was a student at the Liverpool School of Art and Design. Ross has had quite a few occupations, such as cartoonist, graphic designer, art director at an advertising agency, senior lecturer in art and head of the illustration course at Manchester Polytechnic. Ross won the 1986 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, picture books category, for Ich komm dich holen!, (I'm coming to get you! - Andersen, 1984. He was runner-up for the 1990 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject, for Dr. Xargle's book of Earth Tiggers. Meet the illustrator What is your favourite animal? A cat What is your favourite boy’s name? Bill What is your favourite girl’s name? Roxanne What is your favourite food? Lobster What is your favourite music? Irish What is your favourite hobby? Sailing

Francesca Simon

Author · 94 books

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.