Celebrate 20 Years of Horrid Henry with a Nationwide Tour

Kicking off at The Telegraph Hay Literary Festival, Francesca Simon, creator of Horrid Henry, will be touring the country to celebrate the 20th Birthday of everyone’s favourite naughty, little boy.

Tour dates below:

Tuesday 27th May (1pm) – Hay Festival
Wednesday 28th May (10am) – Urmston Bookshop
Wednesday 28th May (2.30pm) – Waterstones, Liverpool One
Thursday 29th May (2.30pm) – Selfridges, Oxford Street, London
Saturday 31st May (1pm) – Waterstones Bluewater
Sunday 1st June (11am) – Chapter One Bookshop
Saturday 7th June (1pm) – Waterstones York

Horrid Henry birthday parties will also be taking place at bookshops across the UK, so keep your eyes open at your local bookshop to see if there is one coming near you.

Details for all of Francesca’s events can be found here.

Fabulous Francesca Facts

"Families are great sources of comedy because they are about people trapped together. Only the parents chose to be there and the rest of you are stuck with these people that you might not necessarily like"

"Nobody feels emotions like children and with Henry, the war is constant and total. Anyone who has lived in a family has these shared experiences - the car journey from hell, nits or vomiting"

"I’ve never met a child who doesn’t love hearing stories. It’s a good way of introducing them to books and it’s a great way of getting them to understand stories that they might not be able to read themselves"

"We all love stories, it all helps making sense of the world"

"Horrid Henry speaks to the impish, rebellious child in all of us"

"My first book was called Papa Forgot and was published in 1993"

"I’ve written over fifty books"

"My birthday is 23rd February"

"I’m a bit scared of the dark"

"My hobbies are reading, cooking and going to the theatre"

"My favourite author is Anthony Trollope"

"My most disliked food is beetroot"

"My favourite colour is aquamarine"

"My favourite food is scallops"