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Most of Henry's best friends are also his worst enemies! These top ten favorite supersilly stories full of games, pranks, and revenge will have you howling with laughter.

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Horrid Henry

by Francesca Simon

Published 26 May 1994
Horrid Henry tries to be perfect for one day; he learns to dance, quarrels with his arch-enemy Moody Margaret and goes on holiday.

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Horrid Henry Annual 2017

by Francesca Simon

Published 11 August 2016

Join Horrid Henry for another jam-packed year of fun, with help from his foulest friends and most evil enemies - this is a must for any Horrid Henry fan!

Full of awesome activities, quizzes, puzzles, jokes, extracts, and much more, this is Henry's most amazing annual yet. Get ready to spend March with Moody Margaret, have a super summer with Sour Susan, and celebrate a cracking Christmas with Henry himself - the year has never been so horrid!

The perfect gift for Horrid Henry fans.


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Horrid Henry Annual 2016

by Francesca Simon

Published 10 September 2015
With brand new material from Francesca Simon and Tony Ross and packed with fantastic quizzes, puzzles, jokes, activities, extracts, and much more, this is going to be Henry's biggest and best year yet! Based around Henry's foulest and most hateful enemies, this annual is a must for any Horrid Henry fans.

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Horrid Henry Annual 2015

by Francesca Simon

Published 4 September 2014
With brand new material from Francesca Simon and Tony Ross and packed with nasty and nightmarish quizzes, puzzles, jokes, activities, extracts, and much more, this is going to be Henry's most horrible year yet!

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Four complete stories enhanced by Miranda Richardson's award-winning reading and really horrid music and effects: Horrid Henry encounters the babysitter from hell, traumatizes his parents on a car journey, goes trick or treating at Hallowe'en, and sabotages his school project. Four stories, as brilliant and inventive as ever, to add to 'the funniest series ever written about sibling rivalry and what it's like to be a young child' - Independent on Sunday

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Horrid Henry's Underpants

by Francesca Simon

Published 7 August 2003

Four hilarious stories, in which Horrid Henry hits on a brilliant way to write thank you letters, negotiates over vegetables, competes with Perfect Peter over which of them is sickest, and finds himself wearing the wrong underpants, with dreadful consequences.

Read by Miranda Richardson


Includes four hilarious unabridged stories with really horrid music and sound effects :- Horrid Henry's Injection Horrid Henry and the Secret Club Perfect Peter's Horrid Day Horrid Henry's Birthday Party Read by Miranda Richardson

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey.

Frosty Freeze, the best ice cream makers ever, are having a Best Snowman Competition - and the prize is a year's supply of free ice cream. Hmmm boy, Henry can already taste it!

Henry knows that only he deserves to win - but can he defeat Moody Margaret? And what will he do when worm Peter decides that he wants to join in?


Horrid Henry's Nits

by Francesca Simon

Published 28 April 1997
When Horrid Henry gets nits, and his little brother Perfect Peter doesn't, Henry makes sure that the nits spread to every child he knows.

Horrid Henry's Wicked Ways

by Francesca Simon

Published 6 October 2005

Following the spectacular success of Horrid Henry's Big Bad Book, here is a new hardback collection of favourite stories, with colour pictures and brand new material to tell you more about Horrid Henry.
The ten stories all focus on Horrid Henry's home life, and how he vies with his little brother Perfect Peter and drives his well-meaning parents to distraction. They are:
Horrid Henry's Holiday, Horrid Henry's Birthday Party, Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy, Horrid Henry and the Fangmangler, Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick, Horrid Henry and the Comfy Black Chair, Horrid Henry Tricks and Treats, Horrid Henry and the Mummy's Curse, Horrid Henry's Thank You Letter and Horrid Henry's Chores
Further insights into Henry's family life include Home Fact File, a list of Horrid Henry's Prized Possessions, Mum's shopping lists and menus as amended by Henry, and more.


Four fabulously funny stories that will invoke every family's worst Christmas nightmares, as Horrid Henry sabotages the school play, tries to do his Christmas shopping without spending his pocket money, attempts to ambush Father Christmas, and endures Christmas dinner with the guests from hell.

Read by Miranda Richardson


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

1) Horrid Henry Peeks at Peter's Diary
2) Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend
3) Horrid Henry Goes Shopping
4) Horrid Henry's Arch Enemy

Read by Miranda Richardson


Horrid Henry's Revenge

by Francesca Simon

Published 6 March 2003
Wickedly subversive, hilariously funny and bang up to date, Horrid Henry's fame is spreading. In this collection, enhanced by Miranda Richardson's inspired reading and really horrid music and sound effects, Henry accompanies his father to the office, hacks into his parents' computer, meets the Demon Dinner Lady and plans the ultimate revenge on Perfect Peter.

Four hilarious unabridged stories with really horrid music and sound effects:

Horrid Henry and the Mummy's Curse
Horrid Henry's Hobby
Horrid Henry's Homework
Horrid Henry's Swimming Lesson

Read by Miranda Richardson


It's a dreadful shock for Horrid Henry when Perfect Peter is born, and despite his best, or worst, efforts, he can't manage to get rid of him. As Peter gets bigger, Henry gets crosser. But the day comes when Henry inadvertently finds himself saving Peter from a big fierce dog, and discovers that it's rather nice to be a hero. Setting the scene for the Horrid Henry storybooks, this is a story with a universally recognizable theme. The text is very simple and very funny: the artwork is bright and colourful in the spirit of the original books.

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey.

Bang! Pow! The Horrid Henry Time Traveler is ready for blast off . . . And Perfect Peter had better watch out.

A hilarious story perfect for Early Readers.


Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb

by Francesca Simon

Published 3 November 2003

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!

Read by Miranda Richardson


Four hilarious unabridged stories with really horrid music and sound effects: Horrid Henry tries to fool the Tooth Fairy into giving him some money despite the fact that his teeth appear to be "superglued to his gums". He creates havoc as a pageboy at a wedding. He gets rid of Moody Margaret, an unwanted guest. He "breaks in" the new teacher.