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Francesca Simon

Born

St Louis, Missouri, The United States

Website

http://www.francescasimon.com/

Genre

Children's

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Francesca Simon grew up in California and attended both Yale and Oxford Universities, where she specialised in Medieval Studies. How this prepared her to write children’s books she cannot imagine, but it did give her a thorough grounding in alliteration.

She then threw away a lucrative career as a medievalist and worked as a freelance journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph, and Vogue (US). After her son Joshua was born in 1989, she started writing children’s books full time. One of the UK’s best-selling children’s writers, Francesca has published over 50 books, including the immensely popular HORRID HENRY series, which has now sold over twelve million copies.

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Average rating: 3.99 · 39,252 ratings · 2,284 reviews · 386 distinct works • Similar authors

	Horrid Henry (Horrid Henry, #1) by Francesca Simon, Tony Ross (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 3,953 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy (Horrid Henry, #3) 4.03 avg rating — 1,868 ratings — published 2003 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horrid Henry's Nits (Horrid Henry, #4) 4.03 avg rating — 1,740 ratings — published 1997 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick (Horrid Henry, #5) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,657 ratings — published 1998 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horrid Henry's Underpants (Horrid Henry, #11) 4.07 avg rating — 1,478 ratings — published 2004 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horrid Henry Robs The Bank (Horrid Henry, #17) by Francesca Simon, Tony Ross (Illustrator) 4.05 avg rating — 1,485 ratings — published 2008 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horrid Henry and the Secret Club (Horrid Henry, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 1,488 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horrid Henry and the Bogey Babysitter (Horrid Henry, #9) 4.01 avg rating — 1,425 ratings — published 2002 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb (Horrid Henry, #10) 4.02 avg rating — 1,394 ratings — published 2002 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horrid Henry and the Mummy's Curse (Horrid Henry, #7) 4.03 avg rating — 1,282 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Horrid Henry (135 books)
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Horrid Henry (25 books)
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Horrid Henry Early Reader (46 books)
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“No more Latin, no more French, No more sitting on a hard school bench. No more dirty bread and butter, No more water from the gutter. No more maggots in the ham, No more yukky bread and jam. No more milk in dirty jugs, No more cabbage boiled with slugs. Now’s the time to say hurray. We’re eating the Infants today!”
― Francesca Simon, Don't Cook Cinderella: A School Story with a Difference

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“repeated.”
― Francesca Simon, Horrid Henry's Sizzling Summer

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“FIEND “… AND with 15 seconds to go it’s Hot-Foot Henry racing across the field! Beckham tries a slide tackle but Henry’s too quick! Just look at that step-over! Oh no, he can’t score from that distance, it’s crazy, it’s impossible, oh my goodness, he cornered the ball, it’s IN!!!! It’s IN! Another spectacular goal! Another spectacular win! And it’s all thanks to Hot-Foot Henry, the greatest soccer star who’s ever lived!” “Goal! Goal! Goal!” roared the crowd. Hot-Foot Henry won the match! His teammates carried him through the fans, cheering and chanting, “Hen-ry! Hen-ry! Hen-ry!”
― Francesca Simon, Horrid Henry and the Soccer Fiend

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