1. Reflecting / acting on it...
1.1. Children books, she got ideas from her childhood
1.2. Won many different awards
1.3. Wrote for many magazines
1.4. Started full time with children books after her son was born
2. Tuning in...
2.1. Personal life
2.1.1. Married, with a son, she is the proud owner of a Tibetan Spaniel Shanti.
2.1.2. Francesca Simon enjoys reading Victorian novels, especially Anthony Trollope.
3. Going further
3.1. 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.
3.2. Francesca Simon, 53, is the author of Horrid Henry children's books. She is born in Los Angeles, she moved to Britain when she was a teenager and now she lives in London
4. About Francesca Simon
4.1. 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.
4.2. Francesca Simon's top 10 antiheroes
4.2.1. From Just William to Scarlett O'Hara, Tom Ripley to Molesworth, the author of the Horrid Henry books picks out her favourite suspects in a line-up of classic bad behaviour.
4.3. Simon says Horrid Henry is the naughty little boy in all of us.
4.3.1. Horrid Henry creator Francesca Simon tells Gavin Allen why her naughty little boy is so loveable
4.4. 1. London Book Fair biography 2. Official Francesca Simon website
4.5. Awards from Francesca Simon.
4.5.1. In 2008 she won the British Book Award for The Children's Book of the Year with Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman. She is the first American to do so.
4.6. About Francesca Simon
4.6.1. Francesca Simon attended Yale and Oxford (Jesus College) Universities where she specialised in Medieval Studies.
4.6.2. Writing for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, and Vogue (US)
4.6.3. She to north London, where she now resides. She worked as a freelance journalist.
4.6.4. One of the UK’s best-selling children’s writers, Francesca has published over 50 books, including the immensely popular HORRID HENRY series,
4.6.5. After her son Joshua was born, she started writing children’s books full time
4.6.6. In addition to writing books, she reviews restaurants and theatre performances.
4.7. How young or old was she when she wrote her first book.
4.7.1. Question's
4.7.1.1. How old is Francesca Simon ?
4.7.1.2. How old is Francesca Simon's son?
4.7.1.3. Has she stopped writing?
4.7.1.4. Were do you get your ideas from?
4.7.1.5. How old was Francesca Simon when she started her first book?
4.7.1.6. What was her first book called?
4.8. Francesca’s favourite recipe
4.8.1. Continuing our week-long recipe series, Horrid Henry author Francesca Simon shares her favourite staple dish. It's quick, delicious and the only recipe in her repertoire that she didn't find in a book
4.9. 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 milllion copies.
4.10. The City and South London Railway was the first deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, and the first major railway to use electric traction.
5. Sorting out
5.1. Podcast Plan
5.1.1. points of the inquiry
5.1.1.1. life experiences of my author
5.1.1.2. how my author develops their stories