Horrid Henry Rocks

By Francesca Simon

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fiction; GRL M; AR pts: 1.0

Horrid Henry and Perfect Peter go to war in the first story of this book.   Then Henry gets a craving in the middle of night and sneaks into Margaret's secret tent and steals her cookies,  he writes his autobiography and in the last story Henry gets to go to a concert.

Comprehension Questions

Story 1

1. How many sheep are in Peter’s sheep collection?  10  p. 1
2. Why were Perfect Peter and Horrid Henry at war with one another?  Henry kept doing things to Peter’s room   p. 13
3. What did their mom say was the consequence if she found out one of the boys had been into the other boy’s room?  No computer for a week   p. 10
4. Why couldn’t Peter tell his mom that Henry had been into his room?  Peter had gone into Henry’s room   p. 22

Story 2

1. Why did Horrid Henry go out at night into Margaret’s Secret Club tent?  To steal her cookies  p. 29
2. Where did Horrid Henry hide when the girls came out to sleep in the tent? In the chest with the dress up clothes  p. 31
3. Why did the girls climb on top of the chest Henry was in?  they saw a mouse   p. 40
4. Why did the girls get scared when Margaret was telling a zombie story?  They heard creepy sounds  p. 45

Story 3

1. What’s an autobiography?  When you write the story of your life   p. 57
2. Where would the autobiographies be published?  In the newspaper  p. 58
3. Why did Horrid Henry swap out Margaret’s autobiography and replace it with one he wrote?  He felt like it told lies about him   p. 68
4. What did Margaret do to Henry’s autobiography?  Wrote one for him and traded it with the one he wrote   p. 74

Story 4

1. Where did Henry’s mom get tickets to?  Daffy and her Dancing Daisies show   p. 80
2. What concert did Henry want to go to?  Killer Boy Rats   p. 80
3. What did the kids at school tell Henry when he tried to trade his Daisy ticket for a Rats ticket?  No   p. 88
4. Why did Henry go on stage during the Daisy concert?  His ticket was chosen   p. 92