Francesca at Edinburgh Festival – with a new photo
Francesca had a great time at the Edinburgh Festival. She took time out to have her photo taken by Chris Close – and here she is showing off the new pic!
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Gavin Esler in conversation with Francesca Simon
Enjoy watching this special video of the event at the University of Kent last autumn when broadcaster Gavin Esler interviewed his friend, and neighbour, Francesca Simon. Louis was also there!
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Public Library Lending Figures Announced – Starring Francesca
Francesca Simon is the fourth most borrowed author in UK libraries, in 2018, according to the Public Library Lending Chart figures which were announced on 27th April. To date this year Francesca’s titles have been borrowed, or been loaned, 75,799.
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BBC’s 500 Words Short Story Competition returns with Francesca as a judge
The BBC has announced the return of its brilliant short story competition, 500 Words, which invites children aged 5 – 13 years to write a story. In this the 8th year of the competition Honorary Judge Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall will be joined by Francesca Simon, Malorie Blackman, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Jacqueline Wilson […]
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Francesca introduces her picture book Hack and Whack
Francesca Simon reads from Hack and Whack
Read more »Happy National Poetry Day
Thursday 28th September is National Poetry Day. Have you read the poem Henry writes in Horrid Henry’s Big Bad Book? It’s his favourite poem, and it’s called I’m Gonna Throw Up. Watch out! There will be readings and events all over the country to celebrate the day, and you can find out more about how to […]
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Raise money for the Grenfell Tower residents – and bid for Francesca’s signed books
Francesca has donated a signed copy of YA Book Prize & Costa Children’s Book Prize shortlisted The Monstrous Child and a Horrid Henry book to a special auction, Authors for Grenfell Tower. Authors for Grenfell Tower is organising the online auction to raise money for the British Red Cross to go to residents affected by the terrible […]
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Francesca Simon gets sent to The Tower of London! (All in the name of BBC 500 Words)
Francesca joined the 50 finalists of the BBC 500 Words competition at a brilliant star-studded event at the Tower of London. Francesca has judged the competition four times and says ‘I love being involved with 500 Words, I love reading the stories, and I love supporting 130,000 young writers!’ The six winning stories were read aloud […]
Read more »Francesca at Hay Festival – in pictures
Francesca had a brilliant time at Hay doing events about The Monstrous Child. She took part in a panel event with Laure Eve and Paedar O’Guilin and also attended the YA Book Prize announcement, for which The Monstrous Child was shortlisted. Congratulations to Patrice Lawrence who won the award with Orange Boy. Find out more […]
Read more »Join Team Monstrous Child! #YA10
Francesca’s novel The Monstrous Child is shortlisted for the YA Book Prize which is absolutely fantastic news. Each week a different shortlisted story is being championed on twitter. Why not get involved and support The Monstrous Child from 8-9pm on Tuesday 9th May by joining #TeamSimon and using the hashtag #YA10. Follow @yabookprize on twitter […]
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