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Horrid Henry Early Reader: Horrid Henry's Swimming Lesson

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Horrid Henry Early Reader: Horrid Henry's Swimming Lesson by Francesca Simon and Tony Ross

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By Francesca Simon and Tony Ross

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Armbands at the ready as Henry causes chaos in a mischievous bid to escape his dreaded swimming lesson with Soggy Sid.

A hilarious and horrid Early Reader from bestelling author Francesca Simon, and illustrator Tony Ross.

Reviews

17 Aug 2025

I like that horrid Henry is silly

10 Aug 2025

Funny but I love swimming

27 Jul 2025

It was surprising because nobody else got their badge except Henry because he swam away from the shark in the pool that he invented- 5 metres! The ending made me laugh.

24 Jul 2025

The book is fictional and my favourite character is Henry. I hate swimming lessons more than him and the pool is very cold too in my swimming lessons because it is a very big place and they don’t have enough money to afford enough warm air conditioning for the pool.

15 Jul 2025

I like swimming because it is fun

22 Dec 2024

I fell scared because there is a shark in the pool.

22 Dec 2024

I fell scared because there is a shark in the pool.

31 Aug 2024

very funny book

27 Aug 2024

Henry was being silly and troubled others and in turn he got scared .

17 Aug 2024

I liked the Henry was the only one to get his 5m badge after thinking there was shark in the water!! But especially liked the picture of weepy William in the muddy!

17 Aug 2024

I liked aerobic al.

I liked when a shark was in a pool

14 Aug 2024

I liked Horrid Henry the best. The best part of the book was everyone getting scared by the shark.

23 Jul 2024

Cool

12 Jul 2024

What I liked the best was when at the last page when the whole class accept Henry and he got the badge. I would recommend this book to my friend.

06 Jul 2024

Good

03 Jul 2024

it was a good book. i liked how Horrid Henry thought that there was a shark in the pool. it was funny.

14 Feb 2024

Horrid Henry hates Thursdays because he has swimming lessons. It was funny because he thought there was a shark in the pool and he was scared of the deep end. He earns his badge even though he didn’t deserve it!

10 Oct 2023

Henry can't swim as well as me. He is probably in stage zero and I am in stage two.

23 Sep 2023

This was funny.

01 Sep 2023

I dislike it when Horrid Henry lies about a shark just to get his badge.

01 Sep 2023

Thus was a really funny book and we enjoyed reading it

24 Aug 2023

Horrid Henry hates his swimming lessons, but I disagree, I love them. His mum says he has to go to the lesson, so he goes with everything he needs, but says to the swimming teacher that he's forgotten his trunks, so the teacher says he has to wear a spare. The only ones he can find are lots of girls costumes, tiny trunks and a nappy....so he has to squeeze into the tiny ones. He pretends to be a shark and scares everyone out of the pool, but then there actually was a shark!

20 Aug 2023

It was funny

14 Aug 2023

Good book

13 Aug 2023

I rated this book a quarter rate because it was a book for troublemakers and the reason, I liked about the book was that it was very funny. The one I liked of the characters were Perfect Peter.

13 Aug 2023

henry was just like me.

11 Aug 2023

I thought this book was funny because there was a shark

08 Aug 2023

It was really good and it was an early reader book.

04 Aug 2023

It was hilarious and good.

03 Aug 2023

I didn't like it because I don't like horrid people. All the characters in the book seem bad, without any manned, especially Soggy Sid, the swimming teacher.

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