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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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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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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Francesca joined fellow super star authors Jacqueline Wilson and Liz Pichon as plans for the 20th anniversary of World Book Day were announced at a special event at Waterstones Piccadilly. Visit World Book Day to find out more, and register your school.
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The plans for World Book Day 2017 have been unveiled, and a special Horrid Henry title is among the line up of £1 books. Francesca joined an all-star line up of fellow authors and illustrators including Julia Donaldson, David Walliams and Dame Jacqueline Wilson who are all set to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of World Book […]
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Francesca recently met actress Eleanor Tomlinson at the Bolinda recording of The Monstrous Child. The photograph was taken by Seb Juviler.
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When Francesca took part in the 500 Words award ceremony at The Globe Theatre she met up with the Waterstones Children’s Laureate. Chris took the chance to capture Francesca’s hair on his sketchpad. He even gave it a caption, ‘Francesca Simon’s Expressive Hair’!
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Francesca had a fun filled morning with fellow 500 Words judges Malorie Blackman, Charlie Higson and Frank Cottrell Boyce and honorary judge the Duchess of Cornwall as the winners were announced live at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. The judges were joined by actors Julie Walters and Tom Hiddleston and Nick Jonas who read the […]
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Francesca celebrated the launch of her new book The Monstrous Child with many of her friends and family recently including Steven Butler, Amanda Craig, Cressida Cowell, Meg Rosoff and Dame Jacqueline Wilson. Steven and Francesca often do events together, if you’d like to attend one please head over to the events page.
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Francesca Simon talks about her Essential Classics on Radio 3
Read more »Did you know Horrid Henry has a website all of his own? It has all the books and lots of fun things to see and do…
