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. Francesca won the Children’s Book of the Year in 2008 at the British Book Awards for Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman. HORRID HENRY is published in 24 countries and is also an animated CITV series. She lives in London with her husband, son, and Tibetan Spaniel, Shanti.
Series
Books
Horrid Henry's Nightmare
2013
Horrid Henry's Joke Book
2004
Horrid Henry Meets the Queen
2004
Do You Speak English, Moon?
2011
Horrid Henry's Rainy Day
2012
Horrid Henry's Jolly Joke Book
2007
Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine (Horrid Henry - book 13)
2005
Horrid Henry Reads a Book
2011
Where Are You?
1998
Horrid Henry's Mother's Day
2015
Horrid Henry's Holiday
2009
Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy
2003
Don't Cook Cinderella
2005
The Sleeping Army
2011
Horrid Henry's Headscratchers
2006
Hugo and the Bully Frogs
1999
Horrid Henry and the Scary Sitter
2009
Krazy Ketchup
2014
Horrid Henry's Football Kit
2006
Horrid Henry's World Records
2013
Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
2012
Horrid Henry and the Zombie Vampire
2011
Horrid Henry Rules the World
2007
Horrid Henry
2010
Horrid Henry's Spooky Surprise
2008
Horrid Henry's Christmas Stocking
2008
Horrid Henry And The Abominable Snowman
2007
Horrid Henry's House of Horrors
2008
horrid henry's friends and enemies
10 laugh-out-loud Stories!
2011
Horrid Henry Wakes the Dead
2009
Horrid Henry's Christmas
2009
Horrid Henry's Sports Day
2012
Two Terrible Vikings
2020
Horrid Henry's Hilariously Horrid Joke Book
2010
Spider School
1996
Horrid Henry
1994
Horrid Henry's Guide to Perfect Parents
2013
Horrid Henry's Annual 2013
2012
Moody Margaret's School
2011
Horrid Henry's Evil Enemies
2006
Horrid Henry's Mighty Joke Book
2008
Hack and Whack
2017
Helping Hercules
1999
Horrid Henry Shows Who's Boss
2010
How to Survive - Christmas Chaos with Horrid Henry
1834
But What Does the Hippopotamus Say?
1994
Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker
2006
Horrid Henry and the Bogey Babysitter
2002
Moody Margaret Strikes Back
2010
Horrid Henry's Sticker Book
2007
Horrid Henry and Moody Margaret
2010
Horrid Henry's Dreadful Deeds
2009
Hello, Moon!
2014
Horrid Henry's Revenge
2001
Horrid Henry's Purple Hand Gang Joke Book
2011
Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend
2006
Horrid Henry on the Go
2013
Cannibal Curse
2015
Horrid Henry
Rainy Day Disaster
2022
Horrid Henry's Car Journey
2011
The Lost Gods
2013
Horrid Henry Runs Riot
2009
The Monstrous Child
2016
Horrid Henry Versus Moody Margaret
2009
The Goat Café
2019
Toddler Time
2000
Horrid Henry's All Time Favourite Joke Book
2012
Horrid Henry's Brainbusters
2006
Horrid Henry and the Demon Dinner Lady
Book 21
2013
Horrid Henry and the Mummy's Curse
2000
Horrid Henry's Annual 2011
2010
Higgledy Piggledy the Hen Who Loved to Dance
1994
Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb
2002
Horrid Henry's Sleepover
2014
Horrid Henry's Bedtime
Classic children's picture books
2005
Horrid Henry's Wicked Ways
2005
Horrid Henry's Nits
1997
Horrid Henry's Big Bad Book
Ten Favourite Stories - and more!
2004
Horrid Henry Early Reader
2000
Moody Margaret Casts a Spell
2012
Salka
Lady of the Lake
2025
Horrid Henry Robs The Bank
2008
Horrid Henry's Author Visit
2012
Horrid Henry And The Secret Club
1995
Horrid Henry Strikes it Rich
1998
Horrid Henry's Christmas Presents
2012
The Topsy Turvies
1996
Horrid Henry's Annual 2009
2008
Horrid Henry's Fearsome Four
2012
Horrid Henry's Homework
2013
Horrid Henry's Underpants
2004
Horrid Henry's Haunted House
1999
