Horrid Henry

Horrid Henry is the main fictional character in a popular series of children's books by Francesca Simon published by Orion Children's Books.

Horrid Henry is a fictional character created by Francesca Simon and illustrated by Tony Ross. The first Horrid Henry book was published in 1994 and by the end of 2007, there will have been sixteen titles published, as well as numerous collections, activity books and joke books. The Horrid Henry stories are read on audiobook by the actress Miranda Richardson, and published by Orion Audio. The combined sales of all the Horrid Henry books and audiobooks now stands at over ten million copies. Horrid Henry is published in twenty five languages around the world. In February 2008, an exhibition, "Up to Mischief with Horrid Henry", will open at the Seven Stories Centre for Children's Books. Horrid Henry is now also a hugely successful animated TV series. In May 2006 the CITV Channel announced that an animated TV series based on the Horrid Henry books had been commissioned from Novel Entertainment (see also Fimbles and The Roly Mo Show). The series is shown weekdays at 3.30 on the CITV Channel. The television series is the CITV channel's most successful programme and it is being launched on TV in Germany, France and Scandinavia in 2008.

Characters

Horrid Henry

Henry is Horrid! His parents, younger brother, schoolteachers, neighbours and relatives all say so. The four little words Henry hears on a daily basis are "don't be horrid, Henry". Henry is Lord High Excellent Majesty of the Purple Hand gang. He loves comics, money, practical jokes and hates brothers, injections and homework. Henry is the cheekiest, most mischievous boy in the world. Who has a small crush on Moody Margaret despite their conflicts.

Perfect Peter

Perfect Peter is Horrid Henry's younger brother. He's perfect in every way, he's desperate to be loved, to do the right thing and to obey the rules. He likes to show off to his parents how good he is (and how bad Horrid Henry is). Life for Peter is one constant battle with Henry, who always says to Peter "Out of my way worm!"

Mum

Mum is Henry and Peter's mother, she has never trusted Henry to be well behaved, is extremely healthy, and always makes something with vegetables for dinner. She does healthy snacks for parties too. According to Henry, she has told him millions of times that he can never have another party because he is always naughty, and then she always lets him have ONE more chance every year. She always believes Peter and is best known for accusing Henry after Peter has told on Henry.

Dad

Dad is the father of Henry and Peter, he always yells at Henry, but Dad never really yells at Peter, because hence his name, is nearly always perfect.

Great Aunt Greta

Great Aunt Greta is Henry and Peter's aunt, she confuses Henry for a girl and Peter for a teenager. Every year she will give Peter money and she gives Henry a girly present, which ends up being thrown in the bin or left under Henry's bed to collect dust.

Moody Margaret

Moody Margaret is the arch enemy of Horrid Henry. She's a girl version of Henry, lives next door to Henry and is a very loud screamer, and is the leader of the Secret Club. Margaret and Henry are always playing tricks on each other, but it is Henry that usually comes out on top. She is also VERY moody, as her name suggests. She may have a small crush on Henry, because when Peter wrote a fake note to her from Henry asking her to marry him, she was exhillerated.

Beefy Bert

The oldest and dimmest boy in Henry's class, he only ever says 'I dunno'. Despite this, he is extremely strong.

Rude Ralph

Probably Henry's best friend who is always willing to assist Henry with his plans, he is also a member of the Purple Hand Gang. He has a tendancy to be rude to people as his name suggests and is often seen hanging out with Henry, eventhough in some episodes they are ememies.

Gorgeous Gurinda

A girl in Henry's class known for her beauty and is quite vain and somewhat snobbish, unwilling to take part in activities that can make her dirty.

Weepy William

An unpopular and extremely sensitive boy in Henry's class who is almost always seen crying and just about anything will make him burst into tears. He hates the colour 'red'.

Sour Susan

Sour Susan is Margret's minion and best friend, she always has a grumpy and sour face. Sour Susan is mostly a parrot on Margaret acting like a dummy, and mostly says 'Yeah Henry' after Margaret.

Miss Battle-Axe

Miss Boudica Battle-Axe is Henry's teacher, out of all the children in her class, she hates Henry most. She once appeared with her mother in "Horrid Henry dines at Restaurant le Posh". Boudica and her mother also have big carrot noses. Probably the strictest teacher in the school. Her mother always sees Henry during situations which favour her so she sees Henry as a lovely boy and redicules her daughter for her bad teaching.

Miss Lovely

Peter's teacher who is of a gentle nature and is very proud of Peter's progress and behaviour and is always saying nice things about him to his parents.

Mrs Oddbod

The headmistress of the school and is somewhat kinder to Henry than Miss Battle-Axe, she is generally good-natured but can act strange at times, for example, she was the 'time capsule theif' who dug up time cupsules from the school grounds at night.

Prissy Polly

Henry's post-teen cousin who is always in a jumpy and hyper mood and is usually seen smiling, Henry ruins her wedding day though she tried to make it "the best day of her life".

Stuck-up Steve

Steve is Henry's Stuck up Cousin. Henry calls him so "Stuck up" because of how rich and spoilt Steve is compared to Henry. As on the episode Horrid Henry's Haunted House, Henry scares Aunt Ruby and Steve away from their house and Henry keeps the house and everything in it to himself. Hooray for King Henry the Horrible!

Silly Shuey

He is 17 and in between Henry and Peter.

Fluffy

Fluffy is Peter's grey pet cat, who feuds with Henry's hamster, Fang (who makes dog noises). Fluffy is often shown in many episodes sitting by the window sill at night and as he clicks the remote control button next to him, the scene changes to sunrise.

List of Horrid Henry Books

1. Horrid Henry-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.

2. Horrid Henry and the Secret Club-1995

Horrid Henry gets an injection by Nurse Needle (or does he?). The Secret Club wages war against the Purple Hand Gang to see who is the best. Peter tries to be horrid and gets into trouble. It is Henry's parents' worst time of the year...Henry's birthday.

3. Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy-1996

Horrid Henry is a page boy at Prissy Polly's wedding, the tooth fairy is in town...but Henry doesn't have a tooth for her, Henry breaks the meanest teacher in school and Margaret comes to stay (but for how long?)

4. Horrid Henry's Nits-1997

Horrid Henry has nits and passes them on to the rest of the class, scares Peter and his friends, creates havoc on his school trip and wrecks his parents grown up party.

5. Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick-1998

Henry runs away from home and bumps into Moody Margaret, cheats in sports day to win for the first time ever, sells Perfect Peter in a jumble sale, and finds a way to substitute Stuck up Steve's presents for his when Steve and Aunt Ruby stay for Christmas.

6. Horrid Henry's Haunted House-1999

Horrid Henry goes to stay at Aunt Ruby's house, where his cousin Stuck-Up Steve tries to scare him by saying that there is a ghost in the room he is sleeping in. He also fights with Peter for the living-room chair, wins a prize at the school fair and goes on tv.

7. Horrid Henry and the Mummy's Curse-2000

Horrid Henry fights with Peter over a gold gizmo, plays a trick on the kids at his swimming lesson, has a bad time with his spelling homework and tricks Peter into thinking that Egyptian mummies are real using a Mummy kit he has.

8. Horrid Henry's Revenge-2001

Horrid Henry gets revenge on Peter, encounters a dinner lady who takes treats off the class, visits his Dad's office and his boss' son, Bill. Then finds a way to get video games for the family's new computer.

9. Horrid Henry and the Bogey Baby Sitter-2002

Horrid Henry encounters the babysitter from hell, traumatizes his parents on a car journey, goes trick or treating at Hallowe'en, and invades Moody Margaret's Secret Club.

10. Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb-2002

Horrid Henry and Margaret steal each others' weapon idea when the traitors of each camp reveal it to them. He also gets Miss Battle-axe in trouble with the head, tries to win a reading competition for tickets to a theme park and goes for a sleepover at new Nick's house, but leaves in the middle of the night because it is horrible.

11. Horrid Henry's Underpants-2003

Horrid Henry makes a deal with his parents about him eating vegetables, receives girls underwear for a birthday present and finds himself wearing them, pretends to be sick on the same day as Peter (to get out of going to school) and finds a way to get money by writing no thank you letters.

12. Horrid Henry Meets the Queen 2004

Horrid Henry is forced to do his chores, attempts to hypnotise Moody Margaret, insists on having a bath by himself and ruins the day when the Queen comes to school.

13. Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine-2005

Horrid Henry goes on a dreaded hike, stopping him from watching his favorite cartoon Rapper Zapper. He also tricks Peter into thinking that time machines are real in a truly fantastic plot, so Peter plots revenge against Henry and finally Henry goes to a posh French restaurant with Stuck-up-Steve and Rich Aunt Ruby for Mum's birthday.

14. Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend-2006

Henry looks at Peter's diary, plays a game of football at school, goes shopping for new clothes (but he didn't like it) and meets Bossy Bill again.

15. Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker-2006

Horrid Henry ruins the school play, fails to buy his family and friends presents (so he gives them second hand things instead) and ambushes Father Christmas at last and creates a disaster at his Christmas party.

16. Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman-2007

Building a snowman brings gets Henry's competitive muscles twitching, he sets up his Marvellous Makeovers business to rival Moody Margaret's Magnificent Makeovers and to cap it all, things go badly wrong when a famous author visits his school. ===17. Horrd Henry and Shuey

Compilations

Horrid Henry Rules the World - 2007 - Ten favourite stories and Henry Taking over the World and bringing freedom to kids and youths
Horrid Henry's Evil Enemies - 2006 - Ten favourite stories and more
Horrid Henry's Wicked Ways - 2005 - Ten favourite stories and more
Horrid Henry's Big Bad Book - 2004 - Ten favourite stories and more
A Triple Treat of Horrid Henry - Three books in one
A Giant Slice of Horrid Henry- Three books in one
A Handful of Horrid Henry - Three books in one
A Helping of Horrid Henry - Three books in one
A Hat Trick of Horrid Henry - Three books in one

Other Books

Horrid Henry's Annual 2008 - 2007
Horrid Henry's Joke Book - 2004
Horrid Henry's Jolly Joke Book - 2007
Horrid Henry's Mindbenders - 2006
Horrid Henry's Headscratchers - 2006
Horrid Henry's Brainbusters - 2006
Horrid Henry's Colouring Book - 2007
Horrid Henry's Puzzlebook - 2007
Horrid Henry's Stickerbook - 2007
Horrid Henry's Jolliest Joke Book - 2007

Changes From Book To Book

In 'Horrid Henry & the Mummy's Curse' ('Horrid Henry's Hobby'), Peter says that his favourite vegetable is beetroot, whereas in 'Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine' ('Horrid Henry Dines at Restaurant Le Posh') he refuses to eat beetroot.
In 'Horrid Henry's Holiday', Henry likes swimming. Seven books later, he hates it.
In Horrid Henry's bathtime, Henry loves baths. Whereas in Horrid Henry's Diary, it said he hated baths.
In Horrid Henry and the Bogey Babysitter, Dad says that bedtime is 9:00, whereas in Horrid Henry's bedtime. It is one hour back (8:00pm).
In 'Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy' Pimply Paul hates children. However, in 'Horrid Henry's Christmas Lunch' he can be seen talking nicely to Henry.

Episode Guide

Seen On TV

Series 1

1: Horrid Henry's Tricks and Treats
2: Horrid Henry's Hobby
3: Horrid Henry's Hike
4: Moody Margaret Moves in
5: Horrid Henry's Sports Day
6: Horrid Henry's School Fair
7: Horrid Henry and the Demon Dinner Lady
8: Horrid Henry Eats Out
9: Who Stole Mr Kill?
10: Horrid Henry Goes Swimming
11: Horrid Henry and the Bogey Babysitter
12: Horrid Henry's Time Machine
13: Horrid Henry's Birthday
14: Horrid Henry and the Tooth Fairy
15: Horrid Henry Goes to Work
16: Horrid Henry and the Dinner Guests
17: Horrid Henry's Horrid Revenge
18: Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick
19: Horrid Henry and the Secret Club
20: Horrid Henry's Perfect Day
21: Perfect Peter's Horrid Day
22: Horrid Henry's Christmas
23: Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend
24: Horrid Henry's Time Capsule
25: Horrid Henry Runs Away
26: Horrid Henry's Horrid Heroes
27: Horrid Henry's Haunted House
28: Horrid Henry and the Injection

Series 2

1: Horrid Henry's Hideo Video
2: Horrid Henry's Underpants
3: Horrid Henry Computer Whizz
4: Horrid Henry Makes Some Money
5: Horrid Henry and the New Teacher
6. Horrid Henry Meets The Queen
7: Horrid Henry's New Shoes
8: Horrid Henry's Household Chores
9: Where's Fluffy?
10: Horrid Henry's Fairy Dance
11: Horrid Henry's Horrid Hamster
12: Horrid Henry's Diary
13: Horrid Henry's Aquarium
14: Horrid Henry Tidies Up
15: Horrid Henry's Wedding
16: Horrid Henry's Dance Class
17: Horrid Henry Reads a Book
18: Horrid Henry Trapped!
19: Horrid Henry's Sleepover
20: Horrid Henry's School Trip
21: Horrid Henry's Holiday
22: Happy Birthday Peter!
23: Perfect Peter's Revenge
24: Horrid Henry's Sick Day
25: Horrid Henry And The Abominable Snowman
26: Horrid Henry Rules The World
27: Horrid Henry's Christmas Lunch
28: Horrid Henry's Christmas Stocking

Series 3

1: Horrid Henry's Christmas Presents
2: Horrid Henry's Goo Shooter
3: Horrid Henry Camps At Night
4: Horrid Henry's Video Game
5: Rude Ralph's Birthday Party

DVD's

Horrid Henry's Horrid Revenge

1: Horrid Henry's Horrid Revenge
2: Moody Margaret Moves In
3: Horrid Henry Tricks The Tooth Fairy
4: Horrid Henry's Hike
5: Horrid Henry's Sports Day
6: Horrid Henry's School Fair
7: Horrid Henry And The Demon Dinner Lady
8:Horrd Henry and Shuey

Horrid Henry's Tricks And Treats

1: Horrid Henry's Tricks And Treats
2: Horrid Henry And The Football Fiend
3: Horrid Henry's Time Capsule
4: Horrid Henry's Hideo Video
5: Horrid Henry And The Haunted House
6: Horrid Henry And The New Teacher

Horrid Henry's Underpants

1: Horrid Henry's Underpants
2: Horrid Henry's Heroes
3: Horrid Henry's Horrid Hamster
4: Horrid Henry's Computer Whizz
5: Horrid Henry Makes Some Money
6: Horrid Henry's Christmas

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