Francesca’s World Book Day
Francesca has had an incredibly busy World Book Day – and week. Here are some photos to show you what she’s been up to.
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The Monstrous Child shortlisted for YA Book Prize
Francesca’s first YA novel The Monstrous Child has been shortlisted for the prestigious YA Book Prize. The winner will be announced at a special event at Hay Festival on 1st June. Other books on the shortlist are: Malorie Blackman’s Chasing the Stars Crongton Knights by Alex Wheatle The Call by Peadar O’Guilin The Graces by […]
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Storm Doris couldn’t stop Francesca!
On 23rd February Francesca was due to appear on Blue Peter to talk about World Book Day and her special £1 book, Horrid Henry Funny Fact Files. But Storm Doris had other ideas… The UK was ravaged by winds of up to 90mph which meant all trains in and out of London Euston were cancelled. […]
Read more »Francesca the UK’s 4th most borrowed author in January
The PLR (Public Lending Right) figures have been released, and show that Horrid Henry and Francesca’s other stories are just as popular as ever. Francesca is one of 4 children’s authors whose books were borrowed over 1 million times last year. PLR means that every time a book is borrowed from a public library the […]
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The Monstrous Child shortlisted for Costa Children’s Book of the Year
Francesca’s novel has been shortlisted for a highly prestigious book award. The news was announced on 22nd November on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, when The Monstrous Child was described as a Nordic saga come Greek tragedy. The winner of each of the categories in the Costa will be announced on 3rd January.
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Francesca – and Louis too – join Libraries March
Francesca joined over 2000 people including the Children’s Laureate, Chris Riddell, former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen and many fellow writers and children’s authors at a march to protest about library closures. She took her dog Louis with her. Louis looks as if he’s enjoying his trip into central London!
Read more »Francesca joins the BBC’s Love to Read campaign on Radio 4 Front Row
Francesca was recently invited by the BBC to read a classic book she’d never read before as part of the broadcaster’s ‘Love to Read’ season. You can listen to her reading a book which she bought for the grand sum of 75p back in 1981 and which had been languishing on her bookshelves until asked […]
Read more » The Monstrous Child nominated for the Carnegie Medal
Francesca’s novel The Monstrous Child has been nominated for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal. Every year children’s librarians award the Carnegie Medal for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people. The Carnegie Medal, and the Kate Greenaway Medal, which is given to an outstanding illustrated book for young people, are rightly […]
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Celebrating Bookshops on #BookshopDay
Francesca is an enthusiastic champion of bookshops on the high street. This Saturday bookshops in the UK and Ireland are celebrating ‘Bookshop Day’. As she says, ‘I’ve discovered so many wonderful books browsing in bookshops, so it’s wonderful to have a day celebrating how brilliant bookshops are. Horrid Henry took off because booksellers recommended them to […]
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Happy National Poetry Day
Thursday 6th October 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! You can find out more about how to celebrate poetry here, download resources to help mark the day in schools and find quote cards […]
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