Produced by Novel Entertainment (in association with Nelvana Limited for series 1 only), it was broadcast from 30 October 2006 to 17 May 2019 on CITV. I realised I was drawing mums like they used to be, so I gave her jeans and trainers to make her trendier. The incidental music is composed by Lester Barnes, [13] and additional songs are composed by Lockdown Media. In April 2008 "Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman" won the Galaxy Children's book of the Year Award.

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Henry had to be recognisable from every angle, so I gave him a stripe round his jumper and long hair, which I've always associated with rebelliousness. The series was first announced to be in development on 2 October 2003, when Novel Entertainment announced they had secured exclusive TV, film and home entertainment rights to the franchise from Orion Children's Books. Horrid Henry's jealous relationship with Perfect Peter is the original Cain and Abel battle seen in most households, according to their creator, Francesca Simon. The film's plot focuses on Henry and The Purple Hand Gang fighting to prevent the closure of their school by an evil private school Headmaster.The titles The Early Readers series, aimed at younger readers, each consist of a single story with colour illustrations. Since he was meant to be the child we all try to socialise our own children into being, I was surprised when I found that many parents disliked him. It takes me a week to illustrate a volume of four stories, working flat out – or my version of it, which involves long lunches and finishing in time for Coronation Street. The series has broadcast in more than 90 countries, [11] including France, United States, Germany, South Africa, India, Pakistan, South Korea, Russia, the Philippines and Australia.

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Henry says things that we all think but don't dare express, and I'm pleased when parents and children read the books together.Sometimes it rankles that I am known now for Horrid Henry when I've illustrated 2,000 other books, and done many of them much better. I did make one terrible mistake that no one has yet noticed: in Horrid Henry's Evil Enemies I drew the jersey yellow with a blue stripe when it should be the other way around, but even the publisher didn't pick up on it. By March, the series was pre-sold to Disney Channel in France, RÚV in Iceland, SVT in Sweden, NRK in Norway and YLE in Finland, with broadcast deals in South Africa, Turkey and Portugal being negotiated.

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We all have aspects of Horrid Henry and Perfect Peter – the desire to be good, the urge to rebel – and sometimes it’s great to let the imp out. On 10 May 2018, Nicktoons UK [14] announced they had acquired the broadcast rights to all the seasons of the show, and it premiered on 28 May 2019 on Nicktoons in the UK and Ireland with a special "Horrid Half Term". On 5 June 2008, Novel Entertainment announced a theatrical stage show titled Horrid Henry: Live and Horrid. The game was later released on Microsoft Windows, and altogether sold 100,000 units on all three platforms in the UK. It was revealed that the podcast would have a second series during the Autumn, however, the series was postponed until a later date.

I adore Perfect Peter, because I’m touched by his desperate need to be good, though Henry is obviously most people’s favourite. Rather than modelling him on a specific boy, I used aspects of myself: the aggressive, selfish, get-out-of-my-way instincts you see surfacing in adults. In April 2009, the US Sourcebooks' Jabberwocky imprint released four Horrid Henry paperbacks nationwide, which included Horrid Henry, Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb, Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine" and Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy. Horrid Henry was broadcast on Nicktoons UK in May 2018 [14] [16] and quickly became the channel's most popular show. Eleven fact books, written from Henry's point of view, have also been published along with eight joke books, eleven colour books and at least twelve activity books as well as a series of annuals.

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In 2019, the series was the number three most-watched animation across all the UK's commercial TV services. During August and December 2009, Horrid Henry took to the airwaves with his own radio show on Fun Kids Radio, hosting a weekly show of comedy and music. His jealous relationship with Henry is the original Cain and Abel battle seen in most households: if one child is good at something, the other goes the other way to be different.

We often try to override how children feel – telling them they're not really scared, or that of course they don't hate their brother. CITV lost the rights to the series to Nickelodeon in January 2019, just a few months before the fifth series ended in May that year. New tracks including My Song, Born To Be Rude, Wanna Be Me and Too Cool For School featured on the Vue Cinema special and will be released on the album. After which, the show toured the UK at locations such as High Wycombe, Bromley, Newcastle, Hull, Liverpool, and Bradford.