The awful exploits of the ever-terrible Henry never fail to delight. Three books are bound up as one to give twelve hair raising stories including how Henry builds himself a time machine, how he wrecks the school play and how her amends little Perfect Peter’s diary.
Horrid Henry's cunning comes to the fore in this collection of twelve classic stories about our favourite cheeky child, including the ones when Horrid Henry sabotages the school Christmas play, reads Perfect Peter's diary and improves it, builds himself a time machine and tricks Perfect Peter.
Francesca Simon was born in St Louis, Missouri, grew up in California, and attended both Yale and Oxford Universities, where she specialised in Medieval Studies. She worked as a freelance journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph, and Vogue (US) and 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 fifteen milllion 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.
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