Four stories about Horrid Henry, everyone's favourite awful child, and — as Books for Keeps called him — 'the child every teacher has nightmares about'.

For a start. Horrid Henry has nits, and he's on a mission to give them to everyone else. After that, he can turn his attention to terrorising Perfect Peter while making some pocket money, sabotaging the school trip, and getting his own back when he's sent to bed because his parents are giving a dinner party.

Horrid Henry's Nits
Horrid Henry and the Fangmangler
Horrid Henry's School Trip
Horrid Henry and the Dinner Guests

Miranda Richardson has appeared in films such as the Academy Award and Golden Globe winner The Hours, Sleepy Hollow, The Crying Game, Empire of the Sun and Spider . Television work includes A Dance to the Music of Time, Jackanory , Queen Elizabeth in Blackadder and Queen Mary in The Lost Prince . Stage plays range from Old Times to The Changeling .