Contact - Francesca Simon

Please choose from the options below to tell us the nature of your enquiry:

I am a school teacher with letters to send Francesca from my class

Please visit the Schools section.

I am a bookshop or a library looking for materials

There are lots of free resources in the Schools section and also the Bad Children’s Room. You can also watch lots of great videos with Francesca on her Youtube channel.

If you have additional requests for materials such as posters, please send your request to Hachette Children’s Publicity team and include your name and address.

Is there a newsletter I can sign up to receive?

There isn’t a Francesca Simon newsletter at present, but you can keep up to date with all the latest news, books and events on this website.

You can sign up to receive the Horrid Henry newsletter here.

I have a press or publicity enquiry

Please visit the Press Room.

I am a bookshop or festival and would like to check Francesca’s availability for an event

Please contact the Hachette Children’s Publicity Team including “FRANCESCA SIMON” in your subject heading.

For enquiries relating to The Sleeping Army and The Lost Gods, please contact Faber Books.

I would like to a send a joke or a picture to Francesca

Francesca loves seeing your creations! Did you know there is a special section on the Horrid Henry website for your jokes and pictures? Please send them to:

Horrid Henry website team
c/o Hachette Children’s Books
Carmelite House
50 Victoria Embankment
London EC4Y 0DZ

I would like to send a letter in the post to Francesca

If you are a school teacher with letters from a class, please submit them here. If you are writing to Francesca personally, you can send your letter (and please enclose a S.A.E.) to:

Francesca Simon
c/o Hachette Children’s Books
Carmelite House
50 Victoria Embankment
London EC4Y 0DZ

Francesca receives hundreds of letters every week and does her best to reply to them all personally, as long as a contact name and address is included, but it can take a while!

I have a professional work related enquiry

Please contact Francesca’s literary agent Stephanie Thwaites at Curtis Brown stephanie@curtisbrown.co.uk

I have an enquiry about the opera

For all opera related enquiries please contact Helen Mumby helen@thesohoagency.co.uk

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"