Francesca introduces her picture book Hack and Whack
Francesca Simon reads from Hack and Whack
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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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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.
Read more »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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