Revenge Henry Style! (Horrid Henry's Revenge - Francesca Simon)

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Product:	Horrid Henry's Revenge - Francesca Simon
Date:	03/07/09 (182 review reads)
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Advantages: Fun short stories, easy to read

Disadvantages: none

This is a book which again was bought for my eldest on his 7th Birthday. The book is part of a collection and he now has quite a few of them as he really does enjoy the stories and characters.

The book is a paperback and the cover is orange with a picture of Henry at the top holding a spider on some string and the title below this. The book is not one full story but is in fact 4 shorter stories. The stories are:-

1. Horrid Henry's Revenge.

This story starts with Horrid Henry and his brother Perfect Peter having a fight. Henry soon gets sent to his bedroom and thinks it is very unfair as Peter never gets sent to his. Perfect Peter is always trying to get Henry into trouble by telling on him for even the smallest naughty thing he does. Henry wishes he could do magic so he could turn Peter into a worm and then show everyone his worm brother but as he cant do magic he is going to have to think of another way to get Peter back.

Henry decides that he is going to have to make a plan to get Perfect Peter into very big trouble but what could his plan be and just how much trouble would he be able to get Perfect Peter into?

2. Horrid Henry's Computer

Henry is on the computer but is soon told he is not to be on it as it is for Mom's work Dad's work and school work and not for playing games on, Henry thinks this is funfair as everyone has such cool games for their computers. Henry wonders what the point is of having this computer, Perfect Peter tells Henry that he could use it to practice his spelling or write an essay but Henry says he does not want to do this. Peter tells his Mom that he does not want to play games on the computer which makes Henry mad as he does so Henry starts fighting Peter and soon ends up being sent to his room.

That night when everyone was asleep Henry decided to sneak downstairs to the computer to see if their were any games hidden, unfortunately Henry did not find any but he did find Perfect Peter's work. What would Henry do now he had the chance to get back at Peter and what would the consequences be?

3. Horrid Henry Goes to Work

Henry's Mom and Dad are arguing over you is to take Henry to work with them as the following day is a 'take your child to work day' and neither want to take Henry but both wanted to take Perfect Peter. Dad finally gets the job of taking him and warns Henry that his boss is taking his son who apparently perfect, Peter says he would love to meet him! Henry thinks he is going to be able to spend the day playing computer games and eating donuts.

When they arrive at Dad's work Henry is warned to be good and nice to the boss' son Bill, Henry says he will try. Will Henry have the fun day he thinks he will be getting and just what will he make of Bill?

4. Horrid Henry and the Demon Dinner Lady

Henry is angry as he is told he is not allowed to take a packet lunch to school and he has to have school dinner, he tells his Mom and Dad how horrid they are. Perfect Peter say show much he loves the dinners. Finally after weeks of moaning Henry gets to take a packet lunch but only as he promised he would eat everything inside his lunchbox. The next day Henry gets to go into the schools packet lunch room where he thinks of food fights, food swaps, yummy food and no school dinners.

Will Henry's packet lunch and the lunch room be all he has hoped for and will he get the yummy food and keep his promise to his Mom and Dad or will something or someone stand in his way of the fun and food?

William (my eldest) had great fun reading this book by himself and found it very easy. The way the book is written makes it really easy to follow and there are no big words which children could trip up on. The stories are all very basic and simple and therefore really easy to read.

The text is a nice big size and black and is always on plain parts of the pages so it is very easy to see. There are illustrations in the book which are all black and white and they do help with the telling of the story and help to visualise characters and things which are happening. Some of the pictures do make William giggle as they are funny.

Personally I like how the book is split into 4 stories as it keeps Williams attention whereas if it was only one long story he might start to get bored. The stories are only short and I found when reading them to him they only took two nights as we only read for about 5 - 10 minutes each night but obviously when William reads them on his own it does take him much longer as he only reads 3-4 pages each time.

This book was written by Francesca Simon and Illustrated by Tony Ross. It was published by Orion and has a retail price on the back cover of £4.99. If you look on both Amazon and EBay the you will be able to pick up a copy for much less.

I am definitely going to recommend this book and indeed the others in the same collection as they are great for encouraging independent reading as they have fun stories which children love to read and they all have nice basic wording.

If you would like any further information on this or any Horrid Henry book then please visit www.horridhenry.co,.uk

Summary: 4 short stories featuring Horrid Henry