Horrid Henry Robs the Bank by Francesca Simon is four funny stories for 6 year olds about a boy with BIG plans for making money and not much patience for anything else.<\/p>\n
Henry needs a Hip-Hop Robot Dog. Everyone has one, apparently. Everyone but him. Mum says it’s too expensive and Dad says it’s too noisy.<\/p>\n
So when Peter and Tidy Ted start a newspaper to sell at school, Henry spots a business opportunity. He’ll write his own! News doesn’t have to be true, does it? It just has to be new.<\/p>\n
His paper is called the Basher. It reports that Peter has been sent to prison and that the head teacher was spotted in a yellow polka dot bikini. Then a school inspector buys a copy (oh dear).<\/p>\n
It’s lovely mischief, because you get to read the Basher’s headlines along with Henry, and his made-up gossip is very silly indeed.<\/p>\n
The other three stories are all about rivals. Henry is dumped at Moody Margaret’s house for a Saturday of playing school, with Margaret as head teacher AND teacher. Peter pinches Henry’s pirate party idea for his own birthday. And there’s a game of Gotcha, all dragon lairs and rubies, against the biggest cheat on the street.<\/p>\n
That’s where the title comes in. Henry is running low on treasure, so he nips off to the bathroom and comes back with rather more than he left with.<\/p>\n
Any child whose little brother or sister has ever copied their idea will feel Henry’s pain in the pirate party story. His revenge is a made-up cannibal pirate called Blood Boil Bob, which is a touch gruesome but very Henry.<\/p>\n
Henry is outrageous from start to finish. He lies, he sulks and he cheats, and he’s never once sorry about it. That’s exactly why it’s such fun to read aloud.<\/p>\n
The library’s text is American, so the newspapers cost 25 cents and there’s candy rather than sweets.<\/p>\n
If they enjoy Henry rewriting things that aren’t his, Horrid Henry and the Soccer Fiend opens with him finding Peter’s diary and making a few “improvements” before Peter reads it out in assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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