It's Revenge (Horrid Henry's Revenge - Francesca Simon)

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Product:	Horrid Henry's Revenge - Francesca Simon
Date:	18/11/08 (220 review reads)
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Advantages: It's another Horrid Henry book

Disadvantages: None

The Horrid Henry collection of stories is currently the subject of 17 books written for children aged between 6 and 11. The author of these books is Francesca Simon and the subject for the stories, a boy called Henry. As you can probably guess from the title of the collection Henry is a horrid child whereas his brother Peter is perfect. Henry's mum and dad sincerely wish that Henry was like Peter but we don't because then there wouldn't be any fantastic antics from Simon to right her books about.

Horrid Henry's Revenge is book number 8 and was published in 2000. The book contains four stories entitled; Horrid Henry's Revenge, Horrid Henry's Computer, Horrid Henry Goes to Work and Horrid Henry and the Demon Dinner Lady.

Each story is roughly 20 pages in length and so is more than manageable for children. The stories are also interspersed with fantastic illustrations by Tony Ross, which help to engage children even further.

So tell me what the stories are all about I hear you shout. Well give me a second why don't you as below I have written a short synopsis for each of the stories in order to give you a little bit of an insight into the horrid antic of Henry's that each story talks about.

**Horrid Henry's Revenge **
Now Henry's brother Peter is perfect in every single way or so Henry keeps getting told anyway but Henry is fed up of Peter snitching on him and has decided for once and for all to get his own back. Peter however is much too smart to fall for any old trick and so Henry must come up with his most cunning plan yet in order to fool Peter and get him into serous trouble.

**Horrid Henry's Computer**
Upon getting a computer, mum and dad ban Henry from using it for games exclaiming that it is only for work and homework. Peter of course is more than satisfied for this and after mum and dad have produced their reports and spreadsheets Peter types a lovely essay about his favourite teacher. Later that night however Henry sneaks downstairs and changes Peter's essay at the same time he also manages to password the computer. Will mum and dad ever find out about his sneaky antics?

**Horrid Henry Goes to Work**
It's take your child to work day once again and mum and dad are battling over who has to take Henry. Dad looses out and so traipses Henry to work with him warning him that he must be on his best behaviour because his boss is bringing his son to work. The two boys immediately do not get on with one another, as the Bosses son is exceptionally sneaky and smarmy doing everything he can to get Henry into trouble. Henry doesn't take to this lightly as no-one messes with Horrid Henry.

**Horrid Henry and the Demon Dinner Lady **
After finally persuading mum and dad to let him have a packed lunch for school Henry resolves to swap all the food he doesn't like for food he does. Henry proves were good at bartering and usually manages to swap all his vegetable based foods for chocolate, sweets and cakes but this proves useless because every day the demon dinner lady snatches up all goodies. Can Henry outwit her and claim back the spoils of his efforts.

Now I am aware that these synopses are short but the stories themselves are short and so only warrant short synopses as if I wrote more I would be telling you the entire story, which really isn't the point of a review at all.

My favourite story out of the four has to be Horrid Henry Goes to Work because this story shows us another side to Henry. It highlights how Henry isn't the only naughty child in the world and I think that this is a good thing for the collection of stories as a whole.

I would highly recommend these stories to all children within the target age range. They are simple yet entertaining reads and are sure to capture the imaginations of all that read them.

Summary: A brilliant read for children