Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine
- by Francesca Simon
- Short Story
- Mainstream
- Children
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine” by Francesca Simon, in Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine [four stories] (Orion Children’s Books, 2005).
Henry builds a time machine out of the box that the washing machine arrived in, and he’s his usual horrid self in bringing with his little brother Peter up to speed about the whole thing.
—Michael Main
“I’m going to the future and you can’t stop me,” said Peter.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: presumed time period
- Unspecified Future Year: pretend destination
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Booths, Wardrobes, et al.: Made by Henry from a cardboard box.
- Themes
- Apparent Time Phenomenon Is Not What It Seems
- Language Difficulties: “Uggg uggg bleuch ble bloop.”
- Meeting or Viewing Ancestors or Descendants: “I met my great-great-greatgrandson.”
- People from Different Times Look Exactly Alike: “And he looks just like me.”
- Fictional Tags
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine” by Francesca Simon, in Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine [four stories] (Orion Children’s Books, 2005).
- audio reading.
“Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine” by Francesca Simon, in Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine [four stories] (Orion Audiobooks, 2005).
Derived Works
(1)
- “Horrid Henry’s Time Machine” by Francesca Simon (18 December 2006).