Francesca spent 11 days touring across the country celebrating 25 years of Horrid Henry and marking publication of her new book Horrid Henry Up, Up and Away. She made stops in Manchester, Stockport, Oswestry, Birmingham, Coventry, Surrey and London, to name but a few. Over those 11 days, she met over 3,000 Horrid Henry fans. […]
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After the Horrid Henry 25 Tour ended, Francesca Simon and Tony Ross celebrated the success of their series at a big party held by their publisher Hachette Children’s Books. The festivities took place at Waterstones Piccadilly in London. Guests at the party were given alliterative name badges to wear to turn them into a Horrid […]
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Francesca Simon and the illustrator of her Horrid Henry series, Tony Ross, have announced their support for children’s reading charity BookTrust’s Pyjamarama campaign. BookTrust’s Pyjamarama fundraising campaign aims to get children across the country in their pyjamas to raise funds for the reading charity. BookTrust want children across the nation to ditch their normal clothes […]
Read more »Francesca Simon’s Horrid Henry series continues to be very popular in libraries. With 19,785 loans of her books during the calendar year which ended 16th February 2019, Francesca is the 4th most loaned author. The top 5 most borrowed authors are: Julia Donaldson with 46,033 loans James Patterson with 40,164 loans David Walliams with 20,062 […]
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On 22nd January the Nielsen Bestseller Awards in association with Coutts were held in London. The awards recognise outstanding book sales, and Francesca and Tony Ross received a special award for sales of Horrid Henry. The series has now been translated into 27 languages and combined UK sales now exceed 10 million copies. Francesca and […]
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Hachette Children’s Group has just announced a brand-new collection of Horrid Henry stories from author Francesca Simon will be published in 2019. Horrid Henry: Up, Up and Away will be the 25th book in the internationally best-selling series. It will be published next year, marking the 25th anniversary of the first book being published. It […]
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The Royal Opera House will be staging a very special production of Francesca’s epic Norse tale The Monstrous Child. The opera has been created by composer Gavin Higgins and Francesca herself and will be conducted by Jessica Cottis. The production will take place in the Linbury Theatre from 21st February – 3rd March 2019. Tickets […]
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Francesca had a great time at the Edinburgh Festival. She took time out to have her photo taken by Chris Close – and here she is showing off the new pic!
Read more »Enjoy watching this special video of the event at the University of Kent last autumn when broadcaster Gavin Esler interviewed his friend, and neighbour, Francesca Simon. Louis was also there!
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Francesca Simon is the fourth most borrowed author in UK libraries, in 2018, according to the Public Library Lending Chart figures which were announced on 27th April. To date this year Francesca’s titles have been borrowed, or been loaned, 75,799.
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…
