Horrid Henry Christmas Review

TITLE: Horrid Henry’s Christmas
AUTHOR: Francesca Simon
ILLUSTRATOR: Tony Ross
PUB DATE: August 2009
PUBLISHER: Jabberwocky/SourceBooks
ISBN: 9781402217821
AGE: 7-10

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Horrid Henry sabotages the Christmas play; tries to do all his Christmas shopping without spending any of his allowance; attempts to ambush Santa Claus (to get more presents, of course); and has to endure the worst Christmas dinner ever!

MICHAEL’S THOUGHTS:

We love Horrid Henry and are always laughing when we read the books. This is our 5th Horrid Henry book we have read and we are looking forward to reading much more of Horrid Henry’s adventures.

This is a great and funny Christmas book. Inside it are four stories: Christmas Play, Christmas Presents, Ambush and Christmas Lunch.

Christmas Play is about the day Miss Battle Axe assigns parts in the Christmas Play. Horrid Henry was to be Joseph but gets really upset when Perfect Peter gets the part and Henry is the innkeeper. Henry will do anything to ruin it for Peter. When Henry forgets his line he improvises and you know someone will be upset and mad and Henry.

Christmas Presents- Henry’s mother has allowed henry and Peter to decorate the tree and each of the boys want it done a certain way and Henry tells him to stay on his side while Peter says there is no sides. The boys fight because Henry is claiming all the decorations. Then Henry’s mother asks him if his presents are all wrapped and he lies and says yes. Henry didn’t buy any presents. He didn’t want to spend his allowance on anyone so he decides to make his own presents. What kind of presents did henry give his family? Will they like them?

Ambush- Its Christmas Eve and Henry was very specific in his letter to Santa about what he wanted for Christmas and he was hoping that this year would be the year he would get everything off is list. That night before going to bed he booby traps his room and ambush Santa Claus. How will his plan to ambush Santa work?

Christmas Lunch- Finally its Christmas Day. Henry is excited to see what was left for him by Santa. As you can tell probably Henry didn’t get all that he asked for and is disappointed in his presents. When the guest arrive Henry rushes to the door demand his presents. We all know that is rude to do. What will the family think of Henry’s presents? How will the Christmas Lunch go?

We loved all the stories in this book and what a great book to read the week of Christmas.

Thanks to Source Books/Jabberwocky for sending us this finished copy to read and review.

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