The Big Book Of Horrid Henry James Patterson British author Jacqueline Wilson has

British author Jacqueline Wilson has perfectly captured the voice and musings of a 10-year-old in transition

Why is everyone so afraid of the castle on the hill

award-winning illustrator Axel Scheffler

and toys to first words

Rival scientists fight to prove each other wrong

The Big Book Of Horrid Henry James Patterson British author Jacqueline Wilson hasTen favourite Horrid Henry stories, all about school. He gives the class nits, encounters a demon dinner lady, does his best to sabotage the school sports day, finds ingenious ways to get round doing his homework and reading books, and is publicly mortified by a pair of pink underpants.