Horrible Harry and the Green Slime

I was going through some old kids books I had burried in a box in my room and decided to read through them again. Horrible Harry was one of the series I collected when I was young, a fun series about a young boy with an overactive imagination. There are several short stories in each book. They're ve......more

I'm guessing that each book is named after one of the stories in the book. "...and the Green Slime," for example, comes from the fourth and final story in this book. The first story ("Secret Pals") is about an idea Miss Mackle has. She wants everyone to have a secret pal. They draw small pieces of p......more

Horrible Harry and the Green Slime has four chapters about Harry’s class at school. In Secret Pals, the Deadly Skit, Invasion of the Cobwebs, and Demonstrations, the main characters Harry, Doug, Song Lee, and the principal Mr. Cardini have fun in Miss Mackle’s classroom. Here’s what the fourth grad......more

These stories worked great as an audiobook for my almost four year-old. Nice, short stories, but with some good comedy and interesting plots. Perfect for a road trip. You have to be careful with the kid audiobooks - you don't want something that has no plot and is over in five minutes, and you don't......more

Finished this one a long time ago, but, it got lost in my shelf and I forgot to mark it. I was so relieved that my daughter didn't really enjoy it. Horrible Harry is a bit too horrible for both of our tastes and we usually like horrible. This reminded me of the 80's movie bullies, the sort that woul......more