Horrid Henry could be considered the
Dennis the Menace of the
1990s. By the end of
2002, he had terrorised his parents, friends and neighbours in a popular series of ten children's books by
Francesca Simon. Alliterative adjectives are also used to describe other characters in the books, such as Perfect Peter, Moody Margaret and Sour Susan. By
2003, more than a million Horrid Henry books had been sold worldwide.