ABOUT
Children's novelist who penned the popular Horrid Henry book series. Her more than twenty Horrid Henry titles include Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy and Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb.·She won The Children's Book of the Year Award in 2008 for Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman.She won the Children's Book of the Year award one year before Stephenie Meyer earned the same honor.
BEFORE FAMEShe attended both Yale University and Oxford University, majoring in Old English and Medieval studies. She published her first Horrid Henry book in 1994.
PERSONAL LIFEShe was born in Missouri and raised in California. She later settled in London, England with her husband, Martin, and the couple's son, Joshua.
The meaning of the name Simon: To Be Heard FUN FACTSChildren's Author Francesca Simon were born on Wednesday, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of Goat, it is 49 days until Francesca Simon next birthday.