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Horrid Henry #7
Horrid Henry and the Mummy's Curse
Seventh title in the hugely successful series
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
About the author
Francesca Simon
480 books195 followersFrancesca Simon grew up in California and attended both Yale and Oxford Universities, where she specialised in Medieval Studies. How this prepared her to write children’s books she cannot imagine, but it did give her a thorough grounding in alliteration.
She then threw away a lucrative career as a medievalist and worked as a freelance journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph, and Vogue (US). 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 twelve million 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.
She then threw away a lucrative career as a medievalist and worked as a freelance journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph, and Vogue (US). 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 twelve million 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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March 7, 2021
Final one of the three I own *sobs*.
It came back to me as I read it, especially the swimming one. I didn't remember the mummy one at all, in my mind it meshed with the Goosebumps book with a similar theme.
I think book one will always be the best, funniest and most original. The rest are okay, but not on that level.
Well, it's time to let go of them (for now). I hope my relative likes and appreciates them as much as I did when I was his age.
It came back to me as I read it, especially the swimming one. I didn't remember the mummy one at all, in my mind it meshed with the Goosebumps book with a similar theme.
I think book one will always be the best, funniest and most original. The rest are okay, but not on that level.
Well, it's time to let go of them (for now). I hope my relative likes and appreciates them as much as I did when I was his age.
August 30, 2014
I remember really enjoying this as a little kid as it was one of the early Horrid Henry books to come out before Horrid Henry became so hugely successful.
October 3, 2011
This book is written for children aged 6 -11. In the book it contains four short stories entitled Horrid Henry’s Hobby, Horrid Henry’s Homework, Horrid Henry’s Swimming Lesson and Horrid Henry and the Mummy’s Curse. All the four stories involve Henry getting up to no good during everyday activities. I like how Francesca Simon the author of the book gives all the characters nicknames such as, Horrid Henry, Moody Margret and Kung Fu Kate. It’s like a little rhyme and helps you remember the characters name and what type of personality they have. I have seen the cartoon of Horrid Henry on TV, so when I was reading the book I can imagine Henry shouting “IT’S NOT FAIR!”
I think children can relate to Horrid Henry, I hope not to all the mischievous antics he gets up to but not wanting to do their homework or wanting to play with their brothers or sisters toy but they were told their not allowed. I personally can relate to Horrid Henry’s Swimming Lesson. I didn’t like swimming when I was young, I didn’t like the feeling of having my ears under water. I did manage to get of swimming lessons a few times.
Each story is roughly 20 pages in length and so is more than manageable for children. The stories also have fantastic illustrations by Tony Ross, which help to engage children even further.
I think children can relate to Horrid Henry, I hope not to all the mischievous antics he gets up to but not wanting to do their homework or wanting to play with their brothers or sisters toy but they were told their not allowed. I personally can relate to Horrid Henry’s Swimming Lesson. I didn’t like swimming when I was young, I didn’t like the feeling of having my ears under water. I did manage to get of swimming lessons a few times.
Each story is roughly 20 pages in length and so is more than manageable for children. The stories also have fantastic illustrations by Tony Ross, which help to engage children even further.
December 23, 2013
Like junie b. jones with a male main character but the book was not written well. It was boring and he was just a mean kid with no way of redemption. He acted in every way you would not want a kid to act with no redeeming values whatsoever. Not even funny, just over the top meanness.
January 1, 2019
I’ve watched horrid Henry so much on tv because my son loves it. I even have a soft spot for it lol. Enjoyed reading this book
January 18, 2010
More tricks from Horrid Henry!
January 8, 2010
Horrid Henry is always trying to get out of things: going to school, eating vegetables, writing thank you notes for gifts, a baby’s baptism... He also spends a lot of energy coming up with schemes that he thinks will help him get his way. And often he’s pitted against his younger brother, Perfect Peter, who is everything a parent could love in a child that Henry is not.
The series of books that has Horrid Henry trying out one scheme after another is really funny for beginning readers. Three new additions have been added to the series this fall: Horrid Henry and the Mummy’s Curse, Horrid Henry’s Underpants, and Horrid Henry and the Scary Sitter.
Each book has four stories all featuring Henry living down to expectations in some way. Many times his plotting is found out and foiled by parents and teachers, but sometimes his elaborate plans to get his way at the expense of others actually succeed. Kids will love to see how he gets in and out of his scrapes with authority.
The Horrid Henry books by Francesca Simon has delighted nearly 15 million young readers in 27 languages since the series started. Younger siblings of mother-daughter book club members are sure to be happy with these new additions.
The series of books that has Horrid Henry trying out one scheme after another is really funny for beginning readers. Three new additions have been added to the series this fall: Horrid Henry and the Mummy’s Curse, Horrid Henry’s Underpants, and Horrid Henry and the Scary Sitter.
Each book has four stories all featuring Henry living down to expectations in some way. Many times his plotting is found out and foiled by parents and teachers, but sometimes his elaborate plans to get his way at the expense of others actually succeed. Kids will love to see how he gets in and out of his scrapes with authority.
The Horrid Henry books by Francesca Simon has delighted nearly 15 million young readers in 27 languages since the series started. Younger siblings of mother-daughter book club members are sure to be happy with these new additions.
February 28, 2019
How can you hate a Horrid Henry book? Simple answer-you cant. This book has everything you want for a quick 5-10 minute read, full of pictures, onomatopoeia and colour. It builds up the suspense throughout the story ending with an unpredictable result and is a very decent story for a young and early reader.
September 16, 2014
The kids loved this book as we read this at bed time and they could not stop laughing so yes book good and would recommend it to friends if they have kids they will love it to or if you are a big kid at heart you to will laugh out loud with this one so go read it it will make you laugh.
March 25, 2015
Ugh. This book is one of the reasons I keep saying I'm not reading any more Horrid Henry books. There was not much to like about this book. It wasn't funny, just annoying. Definitely put this one in the "no thank you" pile.
October 27, 2007
i love this book it is not supossed to be scary but funny
Want to read
April 26, 2010i stoo funny
April 28, 2010
very funny!!!I can't really remember what happened as I read it ages ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 9, 2012
Malcolm says, "I like the mummy wrapping."
Read
May 29, 2012good
November 27, 2013
it was really funny
February 16, 2014
Read this as bedtime story to my son aged 5. He loved it!
April 10, 2014
Francesca Simon has a great imagination. Horrid Henry is so cool and has great ideas, I think these books are amazing
November 19, 2014
I liked the book for it's alliteration and for it's vocabulary. I hated the antics of Henry!
September 23, 2017
Henry el horrible quiere jugar con una momia de su hermano Peter el perfecto, pero su madre le ha prohibido tocar esos juguetes. Cuando su hermano lo pilla con las manos en la masa tendrá que inventarse una historieta para despistarlo.
June 9, 2018
I loved horried henry and the mummy curse it was fantastic and if you want the review of this book you can get it from me what happens is henry steals peters toy for show and tell I want to leave the rest as suspense so go fetch that book ang read it😍
September 18, 2020
Taking a break from dark reading to keep my niece happy 😊 everytime I see her, she's now passing on any book to me to read. Read, read and more reading. Loved the swimming lesson story. So me back in the day.
January 24, 2019
Read this when I was a child, funny book.
March 30, 2019
Great book
April 16, 2019
I love this book. I'm reading the next Horrid Henry right now.
I love all their books so far.
I love all their books so far.
November 29, 2019
Very good book
May 5, 2020
I actually really enjoyed this serious and thought the mummy story could be work around in history or science! I can see why my children love the books and would use them for end of the day reads.
January 15, 2021
This book what Good! I like it and it was fun to read!
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