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Hack and Whack babysit a toddler – Fire Hazard – and discover to their horror that they might not be the worst Vikings in the village after all. Then they manage to secure an exciting invite to feast with the visiting king, but discover that it's three days of having to be on their best behaviour...until the new teenage king turns out to be a lout – food fights ensue, and he loves them. Unfortunately, that's when the snotty, privileged, wealthy winter guests turn up – distant cousins who can't be turned away. Can Hack and Whack find a way to get rid of them?

Four new stories in which Horrid Henry terrorizes his classmates at a school sleepover in the museum; plays with Perfect Peter and tricks him into handing over all his money; gets out of writing his own story for Miss Battle-Axe by adapting one of Peter's; and meets the Nudie Foodie, a celebrity chef, who comes to the school to improve school dinners. No more burgers! No more chips!

Horrid Henry finds a surefire way of wielding the remote control to ensure he always watches his programme of choice. He also vies with Moody Margaret to become the head of the school, shows off his prowess as a magician in the school talent show, and battles it out with Perfect Peter over who gets the green dinosaur and who gets the purple one.

Four new stories: 'Horrid Henry's Invasion' - Horrid Henry and Perfect Peter keep invading each other's rooms. 'Moody Margaret's Sleepover' - Moody Margaret invites all the members of the Secret Club for a sleepover, with catastrophic results. 'Horrid Henry's Autobiography' - Miss Battle-Axe's class all have to write their autobiographies, the best to be published in the local paper. 'Horrid Henry Rocks' - Horrid Henry wants to go to the Killerboy Rats concert. His family has other ideas.

Horrid Henry slugs it out with brother Perfect Peter over who uses the remote control, then he stays in a haunted house and gets a nasty shock. He finds out where the X is going to be on the map in the school treasure hunt, and finally makes a memorable appearance as a TV star.

First, Horrid Henry has his courage put to the test when confronted with Nurse Needle and a nasty injection. Then it is rivalry between Henry's and Moody Margaret's Secret Clubs as they try to outwit one another.

A brilliant collection of four stories about this favourite character, one of the few new characters to have emerged in recent years for this age group.

Four hilarious new stories, 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, and finds himself wearing the wrong underpants, with dreadful consequences.

Horrid Henry helps himself to all the money he needs to win his favourite board game. Then he comes up with another spectacular money-making scheme for launching a newspaper with all the school gossip. He vows vengeance on Perfect Peter when Peter nicks his birthday party theme and has his own Pirate Party - and gets it by taking over as Head Teacher when Peter plays school with his goody-goody friends.

Snakes and snails and spiders for dinner! Kate was having a bad day. Her first morning at her new school and already her clothes have gone missing, her best friend has disappeared, and her new teacher is a comic-reading gorilla. Something is very wrong! Francesca Simon brings every child's worst nightmare to life in this funny, original story.

Ava is sick and tired of her parents always telling her what to do. Nag nag nag. Why can't she have the kind of parents that let her eat sweets all day? Or parents who never make her go to bed, or eat vegetables?

Then she sees an advert for the Parent Swap Shop, and Ava knows it's time to trade in the old ones for a new and improved mum and dad.

It's just an ordinary day at Mother Goose's Academy. There's Miss Good Fairy teaching the Three Little Pigs, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and Little Red Riding Hood to read and write, while Miss Bad Fairy is inciting the Ugly Sisters, the Big Bad Wolf, Troll, Wicked Stepmother, Wicked Witch, and Jealous Queen to gobble them all up. The result? Chaos!

Now in its fifth incarnation, Tell-Tale's horror anthologies have become an annual benchmark of emerging talent and well-told stories. The select seven featured here will yank you backward and forward again in time, visiting the exotic and the seemingly mundane, at a pace and a pulse calibrated for Halloween chills. Beware of a cat named Sabrina and a Celtic goddess with a passport to Salem—yes, that Salem. An old farmhouse could hold more vivid memories than just its mortal foundations, and think twice about rescuing the sister of a young boy if you find yourself in a desert.

It's not easy being the WORST at everything! Hack and Whack are the very worst Vikings in the village—until a fierce and stinky berserker moves in next door! Will the brand-new school help the twins outwit this villain and his vicious dog, Muddy Butt? And will Twisty Pants, Dirty Ulf and Elsa Gold-Hair help vanquish this foul fiend?

It's a dreadful shock for Horrid Henry when Perfect Peter is born, and despite his best - or worst - efforts, he can't manage to get rid of him. As Peter gets bigger, Henry gets crosser. But the day comes when Henry inadvertently finds himself saving Peter from a big fierce dog, and discovers that it's rather nice to be a hero.

Susan is whisked back through time to Ancient Greece, and finds that helping Hercules clean the Augean stables is much, much worse than tidying her room. One hair-raising experience follows another as she goes down into the Underworld with Orpheus, just misses being turned to stone by Medusa, and rides on the winged horse Pegasus.

This book of farmyard stories from the best-selling author Francesca Simon introduces the animals from Buffin Street. Being on audiobook gives the opoportunity to create entertaining and funny animal sound effects that children will delight in listening to.

A timeless bedtime story from Francesca Simon, read by Lenny Henry. This download includes dramatised and undramatised versions of the story. A little boy getting ready for bed looks up at the moon and wonders whether it can speak English as it shines all over the world. He tells the moon about his day - it's not lonely falling asleep when you share your day's adventures with the moon.

AARDVARK: shouts at. Baked Beans: drops on cat. Ketchup: decorates mother with. Mr. Punishment has the perfect punishment for every naughtiness in the world and every day his telephone rings with parents desperate for his advice. But Mr. Punishment never seems to get it quite right - with chaotic results!

Here is a long audiobook of stories for 0-5-year-olds, about the pets who live in the houses along Buffin Street: the witch's cat, the old sea-captain's parrot, the snake, the hamster, the new puppy, the pony, the gerbil, and so on.