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Francesca Simon
Books in Order: 170 titles
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Horrid Henry: World's Worst Holiday: 6 Stories
It's the summer holidays and Horrid Henry would like to be spending his holidays eating unlimited ice cream and going on all the scariest roller coasters he can find - but instead his family are having a staycation. Life is never dull with Horrid Hen...
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Terrible Teachers
Number One for Fiendish Fun! Join Horrid Henry in a bumper book of mayhem with this brilliantly mischievous collection of six of his best classroom tales! This book includes a DREADFUL dance class, a visit to the BAD CHILDREN'S ROOM, one sabotaged sp...
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Two Terrible Vikings Feast with the King
Three fantastic new stories! Hack and Whack babysit a toddler - Fire Hazard - and discover to their horror that they might not be the worst vikings in the village after all . . . Then they manage to secure an exciting invite to feast with the v...
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Horrid Henry: 12 Stories of Christmas
Number one for fiendish fun! On the first day of Christmas Horrid Henry gave to me .... 12 festive stories!Count down to Christmas with Horrid Henry and friends in this bumper collection of festive stories! This book contains twelve of Henry's most m...
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Two Terrible Vikings and Grunt the Berserker
It's not easy being the WORST at everything! Hack and Whack are the very worst Vikings in the village - until a fierce and stinky berserker moves in - NEXT DOOR! WILL the brand new school help the twins outwit this villain and his vicious dog, ...
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Two Terrible Vikings
This viking duo will give Horrid Henry a run for his money!What if your parents WANTED you to behave badly? Set in the snowy fjords of a Viking kingdom, the terrible twins, Hack and Whack, are proud to be the best worst vikings. Nothing stops the ...
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Spooky Spectacular
Number One for Fiendish Fun! Get ready for a bumper edition of mayhem with this totally awesome collection of six favourite Horrid Henry stories!An irresistible introduction to reading for pleasure - the perfect gift for Horrid Henry fans everwhere....
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Fun in the Sun
Number One for Fiendish Fun! Get ready for a bumper edition of mayhem with this totally awesome collection of six favourite Horrid Henry stories! Spend your summer holidays with Horrid Henry! This book contains six favourite stories and tons of fun j...
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Up, Up and Away
Number One for fiendish fun! Horrid Henry takes to the skies in Up, Up and Away! Horrid Henry is back and cheekier than ever in this brand-new book from the internationally bestselling author Francesca Simon. Contains four brand-new stories, featur...
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The Goat Cafe
Goats eat EVERYTHING! Especially when a garden gate is left open and a feast awaits. Not content with strawberries, lemons and beans they continue to munch until all the plants, the shed and then next door''s fence has been devoured!...
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Horrid Henry School's Out
Make your summer silly with Horrid Henry! A great value collection of six favourite Horrid Henry summer stories in one book, with loads of fun activities at the back to keep boredom away.Join Henry as he creates havoc at the swimming pool, goes on st...
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Hack and Whack
"Unbridled mischief and fun." Publishers Weekly "Hack and Whack are delightfully devious." Foreword Hack and Whack -- two angelic looking Viking toddler twins -- are on the attack! As they go marauding around their village, u...
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Horrid Henry's Jolly Holidays
Celebrate a truly horrid Christmas with Horrid Henry and this festive storybook bind-up.Packed with six favourite Horrid Henry stories, plus bonus content to make sure Christmas is stuffed full of cheeky festive fun.This is the perfect stocking fille...
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Horrid Henry Summer Fun
Get ready for some super summer mayhem with this totally awesome collection of six favourite Horrid Henry stories. Join Henry for a scorching summer as he does what he does best - causes mischief! Featuring hilarious stories, plus totally awesome puz...
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Horrid Henry's Summer Fun
Get ready for some super summer mayhem with this totally awesome collection of six favourite Horrid Henry stories.Join Henry for a scorching summer as he does what he does best - causes mischief! The perfect summer holiday read for Horrid Henry fans ...
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Horrid Henry's Swimming Lesson
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. Armbands at the ready as Henry causes chaos in a misc...
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Horrid Henry's Sizzling Summer
Have a sizzling summer with this totally awesome great value collection of six favourite Horrid Henry summer stories in one book!Join the notorious Henry for a super summer holiday as he raids the Secret Club tent, gives Aerobic Al a run for his mone...
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The Monstrous Child
A stunning, operatic, epic drama, like no other. Meet Hel, an ordinary teenager - and goddess of the Underworld. Why is life so unfair? Hel tries to make the bets of it, creating gleaming halls in her dark kingdom and welcoming the dead who she is fo...
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Don't Be Horrid, Henry!
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. It's a dreadful shock for Horrid Henry when Perfect P...
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Horrid Henry's Cannibal Curse
The final collection of four brand new utterly horrid stories; Horrid Henry's Bake-Off sees Henry and Margaret go head-to-head in a hotly contested baking competition, Henry triumphantly reveals his top tips in Horrid Henry's Extra Horrid Guide to...
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Higgledy Piggledy the Hen Who Loved to Dance
A delightful farmyard story full of energy and fun from Francesca Simon, author of the bestselling Horrid Henry series. Higgledy Piggledy loves to dance - but what good is a dancing hen? The other animals can do much more useful things like pullin...
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Horrid Henry's Mother's Day
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. Mother's Day! Bleccch! Why isn't there a Childre...
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Hello, Moon!
Join a boy and the moon in a fun good night story! In this perfect read-aloud story, a little boy warms up to the moon at bedtime. They have a sweet rapport, with the boy talking to the moon as if it were any other potential new friend. The boy...
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Horrid Henry's Sleepover
Brand new red Early Reader story. Horrid Henry is in for a surprise when he tries to cause havoc on a sleepover in this hilarious story perfect for Early Readers, from multi-million-copy selling author, Francesca Simon, and David Walliams' illustrato...
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Horrid Henry's Fearsome Four
Full colour bind-up gift book of four Horrid Henry Early Reader stories - including HORRID HENRY'S BIRTHDAY PARTY, HORRID HENRY'S UNDERPANTS, HORRID HENRY'S NITS and HORRID HENRY AND THE FOOTBALL FIEND. Early Readers - your child's stepping stone ...
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Horrid Henry and the Bogey Babysitter
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. Horrid Henry hates babysitters - and he knows exactl...
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The Lost Gods
In The Sleeping Army, Freya went to Hel and back. She fought dragons, fled fire and outwitted giants - all to restore eternal youth to the Norse Gods. But now they're back, does anyone care?The Gods' popularity on earth is waning, and without regular...
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Horrid Henry's Homework
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. Horrid Henry is far too busy to bother with his stu...
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The Haunted House of Buffin Street
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.When Fang and Honey's people decide to move out of Buf...
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Jogger's Big Adventure
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.Jogger the hamster is on an adventure, nibbling on boo...
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Look at Me
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.Foxham Pond has frozen over. It's perfect weather for ...
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Miaow Miaow Bow Wow
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.Dizzy the dog loves to sing, but the mean old Alley Ca...
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Rampage in Prince's Garden
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.Prince the poodle is away, leaving his secret garden f...
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Cafe at the Edge of the Moon
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.Janey is fed up of being told what to do by her mum an...
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Horrid Henry Robs the Bank
Four brand new stories in which Horrid Henry helps himself to all the money he needs to win his favorite board game, comes up with another spectacular money-making scheme for launching a newspaper with all the school gossip, vows vengeance on Perfect...
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Horrid Henry's Christmas Presents
This year, Horrid Henry has a brilliant idea for his family's Christmas presents in this hilarious story. First appearing in Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker, here the story is fully illustrated in colour in its own volume, perfect for Early Readers....
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The Topsy-Turvies
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.Meet the Topsy-Turvies family - they do everything bac...
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Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
Four brand new stories in which Horrid Henry makes his own scary movie, The Undead Demon Monster Who Would Not Die, persuades Peter to hand over his stash of Grump Cards and spends a weekend at Aunt Ruby's where he has to share a bedroom with his two...
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Don't Cook Cinderella
It's just an ordinary day at Mother Goose's Academy. There's Miss Good Fairy teaching the Three Little Pigs, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood to read and write - while Miss Bad Fairy is inciting th...
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Helping Hercules
Here are the Greek myths as you've never heard them before.Susan is whisked back through time to Ancient Greece, and finds that helping Hercules clean the Augean stables is much, much worse than tidying her room. One hair-raising experience follows a...
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MR P's Naughty Book
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.AARDVARK: shouts atBAKED BEANS: drops on catKETCHUP: d...
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Horrid Henry and the Zombie Vampire
Henry is up to his usual mischief. 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...
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Horrid Factbook
Did you know that the Olympic gold medals are made mostly of silver? What is the world's most popular sport? Did the Romans really do athletics in the nude? Packed with freaky facts and random trivia, this is the perfect guide to everything you ever ...
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Horrid Henry's Christmas Play
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.Horrid Henry is desperate to be Joseph in the school C...
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The Sleeping Army
Freya is an ordinary girl living in modern Britain, but with a twist: people still worship the Viking gods. One evening, stuck with her dad on his night shift at the British Museum, she is drawn to the Lewis Chessmen and Heimdall's Horn. Unable to re...
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Moo Baa Baa Quack
Full colour bind-up gift book of four Early Reader farmyard stories - including BILLY THE KID GOES WILD, MISH MASH HASH, CHICKS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN and MOO BAA BAA QUACK. Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue...
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Meet the Gang
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.When Honey the puppy comes to live on Buffin Street, e...
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Chicks Just Want to Have Fun
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.The chicks don't want to go to bed. They're sure there...
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Mish Mash Hash
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.The animals of Potter's Barn decide to make Belle the ...
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Parent Swap Shop
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.Ava is sick and tired of her parents always telling he...
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Barnyard Hullabaloo
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.Naughty Fox is on the prowl again, and the animals of ...
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Billy the Kid Goes Wild
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.Billy the kid has so much to do before Gabby Goose's b...
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Where Are My Lambs?
It's time for bed but Mother Sheep can't find her lambs, Tilly and Tam, anywhere! Where in Potter's Barn could they be hiding? An ideal story to read at Easter! Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reade...
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Horrid Henry Rocks
Henry is up to his usual mischief: annoying his younger brother, ruining Moody Margaret's sleepover, and irritating his teacher, Mrs. Battleaxe-not to mention trying to manipulate his family into seeing his favorite band-the Killer Boy Rats....
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Runaway Duckling
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.Mother Duck warns her ducklings about the dangers that...
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Horrid Henry Reads a Book
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.A reading competition? No way is Henry taking part in ...
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Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman
There's a snowman-building contest in town and the grand prize is a year's supply of free ice cream Horrid Henry just has to beat Moody Margaret and her dumb old ballerina snowman. So Henry makes the biggest monster snowman ever. But Henry might have...
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Horrid Henry's Joke Book
Warning: Too rude for parents and for slimy toad little brothers These are Horrid Henry's very own jokes: the jokes that grossed out Mom and Dad... that made Aunt Ruby run home... that sent Miss Battle-Axe screaming from class. Be horrid Read Henr...
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Horrid Henry Wakes the Dead
You won't believe what HORRID Henry will do next! Henry will do anything to win the grand prize at this year's talent show...even wake the dead! Plus three other stories that will leave you screaming for more.If you read this book, you'll laugh so ha...
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Horrid Henry and the Scary Sitter
HORRID HENRY CAN'T STAND RABID REBECCA. SHE'S A NASTY TEENAGER WHO ACTUALLY HAS FANGS. WORSE, SHE'S COMING OVER TO BABYSIT HENRY AND PERFECT PETER. BUT THANKS TO SOME HORRIBLE OFF-KEY SINGING AND A VERY LARGE SPIDER, HENRY WILL MAKE SURE REBECCA KNOW...
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Horrid Henry's Christmas
Discover this funny book series for kids that boys and girls around the world love to read! Horrid Henry's Christmas is the perfect Christmas chapter book for kids! Horrid Henry sabotages the Christmas play; tries to do all his Christmas shopping wit...
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Horrid Henry's Dreadful Deeds
Made to be a page boy at a wedding, forced to go on a country walk, and dragooned into dinner at a posh restaurant - it's a hard life for Henry. But in these ten hilarious stories taken from the Horrid Henry books, he shows he knows how to stick up f...
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Horrid Henry's Underpants
HORRID HENRY'S GREAT-AUNT GRETA HAS BIG PROBLEM. SHE THINKS HENRY IS A GIRL. SHE EVEN BOUGHT HIM A PAIR OF BRIGHT PINK "BIG GIRL" UNDERPANTS FOR HIS BIRTHDAY. ONE MORNING AT SCHOOL, HE DISCOVERS THAT HE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE: HE'S WEARING THOSE FRI...
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Horrid Henry's Annual 2010
Building on the success of his previous annuals, Henry's all set to repeat and beat the records for a third year! Again divided into months and themed accordingly, this is a fun-packed compilation of character fact files, quizzes, puzzles, jokes, act...
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Horrid Henry's House of Horrors
Stories comprise: Horrid Henry's Christmas Presents, Horrid Henry's Car Journey, Perfect Peter's Horrid Day, Horrid Henry Runs Away, Horrid Henry Eats a Vegetable, Horrid Henry Goes Shopping, Horrid Henry's Hobby, Horrid Henry's Bathtime, Horrid Henr...
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Horrid Henry and the Mummy's Curse
PERFECT PETER WINS A "HOW TO CREATE A MUMMY" KIT AT THE MUSEUM, AND HORRID HENRY WANTS IT. WITH AN ARMY OF MUMMIES BEHIND HIM, HENRY IS UNSTOPPABLE. IN FACT, HE'LL CONVINCE PETER THE KIT IS CURSED. BETTER YET, HE'LL CONVINCE PETER THAT HIS CAT FLUFFY...
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Horrid Henry and the Soccer Fiend
MOODY MARGRRET THINKS SHE'S A BETTER SOCCER PLAYER THAN HORRID HENRY. HENRY THINKS MARGARET IS WRONG. WHEN MISS BATTLE-AXE FORCES THEM TO PLAY AGAINST EACH OTHER FOR A FABULOUS PRIZE, HENRY WILL STOP AT NOTHING (NO MATTER HOW HORRID) TO PROVE HE'S A ...
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Horrid Henry and the Mega-mean Time Machine
Horrid Henry invents a time machine and promises to send his brother, Perfect Peter, to the future (as soon as Peter puts on one of Mom's dresses). But when Peter gets there, it isn't exactly what he had in mind. In fact, everything looks kind of the...
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Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy
When Perfect Peter's tooth falls out, Henry gets a great idea. He will steal the toth and put it under his own pillow so that the Tooth Fairy gives him the reward instead of Peter. Will the Tooth Fairy fall for it? Plus three other stories so funny t...
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Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb
Horrid Henry and Moody Margaret are a perfect pair. Henry has a secret club that doesn't allow girls in. Margaret has a secret club just for girls, and both Henry and Margaret love to play pranks. But with Perfect Peter and Sour Susan acting as spies...
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Horrid Henry Versus Moody Margaret
After the storming success of Horrid Henry's three Joke Books, it's time for his arch rival Moody Margaret to strike back. The two foes each put forward their most dastardly dares and side-splitting jokes in their own books, resulting in a hilariousl...
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Horrid Henry's Nits
When horrid henry gets nits, and his little brother peter perfect doesn't, he makes sure that everyone else gets them too. After that, he can turn his attention to sabotaging the school trip, ruining his parents' dinner party, and terrorizing peter....
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Perfect Revenge
Number One for Fiendish Fun!This book contains the ULTIMATE revenge, a computer hack, a DISASTROUS office visit and a demon dinner lady!Four utterly hilarious and totally brilliant Horrid Henry stories by Francesca Simon, with illustrations by Tony R...
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Little Yellow Dog Meets His Match
When Little Yellow Dog meets another little dog just like him, he's delighted. But when the other little dog mysteriously disappears, it takes Ginger Cat to explain that he's been looking at himself in the mirror. Funny, fast-moving graphics illustra...
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Little Yellow Dog Bites the Builder
Biff! Bash! Bang! Crash! Little Yellow Dog, Ginger Cat, and Bad Rabbit run for cover. But Little Yellow Dog is brave enough to creep out and bite the builder. Then he finds out what the biffing and bashing was for. Funny, fast-moving graphics illustr...
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Little Yellow Dog Gets a Shock
Little Yellow Dog likes the look of that comfy armchair. So does Ginger Cat. They're so busy scrapping over it that by the time they've decided to be friends again and share, Bad Rabbit is snuggled up inside it....
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Little Yellow Dog Says Look at Me
Little Yellow Dog sniffs at it, creeps up on it, tries to chase it -- and finds himself whizzing down the road on it. What is it? A skateboard, of course! And isn't he pleased to have an audience! James Lucas's witty, fast-moving cartoons illustrate ...
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Three Cheers for Ostrich!
One, two, three four, it's Ostrich that we're rooting for! Sad little Ostrich just wants to hide his head in the sand. It seems EVERYONE he meets is older, bigger, cleverer, stronger, and faster than he is. Lion is four years old (not three and three...
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When the Moon Comes Out
A look at the lives of jungle animals. During the day zebras graze and kangeroos hop, but when the sun goes down and the moon comes out, they fly kites, eat orange jelly and get up to all sorts of high jinks....
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Hugo and the Bully Frogs
Poor Hugo! What can one small frog--with a squeaky little croak--do against a big, bad gang of bullies? Every animal has a suggestion about how he can defend himself, but Hugo is just too timid to do anything. Then bossy Duck comes by with an answer-...
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Camels Don't Ski
Calamity, a camel...trades in her heavy packs for a colder climate and skis and soon yearns for her former life....It's a particularly easy lesson, learned without fuss or tension, depicted in Busby's cartoonish illustrations."--Kirkus Reviews. "A ca...
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But What Does the Hippopotamus Say?
When young readers join this spirited romp with a menagerie of very vocal animals, they'll discover not only what the hippopotamus says but also what yaks, kangaroos, giraffes, and caribou say.
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Horrid Henry
Horrid Henry and his neighbor Moody Margaret decide to make the most sloppy, slimy, sludgy, sticky, smelly, gooey, gluey, gummy, greasy, gloppy glop possible. Is it the best glop in the world or the worst thing that's ever happened to them? Plus thre...
Award-Winning Books by Francesca Simon
2009 NAPPA Gold Award -- Ages 6 & Up