Francesca Simon: 'I was very much an "Out of my way, worm" kind of sister'
It was when she became a mother that she began to consider writing for children. âAll I did with my son, from when he was four months old, was sit around with armfuls of books from the library. Being around all these books, I started to get ideas about stories for children myself. I never had any ambitions to write for children. But you just donât know what you are going to be good at.â When those first ideas, about a terror called Horrid Henry and his antagonistic relationship with his goody-two-shoes brother, were published in a four-story collection in 1994, Simon was an ins...
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