Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing & reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Horrid Henry is far too busy to bother with his stupid boring spelling homework. He'll just have to come up with a spectacularly brilliant plan instead. ...

Horrid Henry has collected all of his favourite jokes & is itching to share them. He's divided them into sections each one covering a subject he finds fascinating: Dizzy Dave's Dinosaur jokes Anti-Aunt jokes scary screamers & jokes not suitable for mums. & Henry's written his own special introduction to each section. A side-splittingly funny book bursting with jokes collected from primary schools throughout Britain
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Four brand new stories in which Horrid Henry makes his own scary movie The Undead Demon Monster Who Would Not Die persuades Peter to hand over his stash of Grump Cards (as a brilliant scheme to get him out of the punishments his parents give him) & spends a weekend at Aunt Ruby's where he has to share a bedroom with his two arch-enemies Stuck-Up Steve & Bossy Bill. Then when Henry's school decides to have a mini-Olympics he sets up his own Holympics with medals for crisp-eating TV watching & Burping to the Beat. ...

Four brand new stories in which Horrid Henry makes his own scary movie -- The Undead Demon Monster Who Would Not Die persuades Peter to hand over his stash of Grump Cards (as a brilliant scheme to get him out of the punishments his parents give him) & spends a weekend at Aunt Ruby's where he has to share a bedroom with his two arch-enemies Stuck-Up Steve & Bossy Bill. Then when Henry's school decides to have a mini-Olympics he sets up his own Holympics with medals for crisp-eating TV watching & Burping to the Beat. ...

Four hilarious new Horrid Henry stories
- HORRID HENRY'S MOTHER'S DAY probably not the day his mum looks forward to most in the
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Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing & reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Horrid Henry hates sports day. & he hates the cross-country run more than any other event. But just as he is heaving his weary bones to the starting line he has a wonderful spectacular idea of how to win the race. ...

A stinkbomb becomes a deadly weapon in Horrid Henry's long-running war with Moody Margaret; he uses all his guile to win the school reading competition only to find the longed-for prize is not what he expected; he goes for a sleepover & retreats in horror when he finds that other people's houses aren't always as nice as his own; & he has the joy of seeing Miss Battle-Axe ticked off by the Head when he knows it was all his fault. In short another vintage HORRID HENRY title! ...

Four hilarious new stories enhanced by Miranda Richardson's manic reading & really horrid music & sound effects in which Horrid Henry hits on a brilliant way to write thank you letters negotiates over vegetables competes with Perfect Peter over which of them is sickest & finds himself wearing the wrong underpants with dreadful consequences. ...

Welcome to Spook School...where the pupils have bags of spirit! Charlie is now a fully-fledged member of Spook Squad & as a reward for solving two puzzling missions he & his friend Lewis are sent to Earth for a seaside holiday. But while theyre there they come to the aid of two young ghosts living on a shipwreck who are being terrorised by a terrifying monster from the deep... ...

The brutal Japanese treatment of allied prisoners of war as well as countless thousands of Chinese civilians during World War 2 has been well documented. Here Laurence Rees award-winning historian & author of Auschwitz: The Nazis & The ' Final Solution' & World War II: Behind Closed Doors turns his attention to a crucial but less understood factor of one of the most dramatic & important historical events of the 20th century: why were these atrocities carried out? More than 70 years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor this incisive but accessible study examines shocking acts performed by Japanese soldiers & asks why seemingly ordinary people were driven to mass murder rape suicide & even cannibalisation of the enemy. Uncovering personal accounts of the events Horror in the East traces the shift in the Japanese national psyche
- from the civil & reasoned treatment of captured German prisoners in World War 1 to the rejection of Western values & brutalization of the armed forces in the years that followed. In this insightful analysis Rees probes the Japanese belief in their own racial superiority & analyses a military that believed suicide to be more honourable than surrender.
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