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Two sisters have collaborated across the Atlantic to create a children’s book for charity.

Bestsellers on festival schools programme '); THE line-up for this year’s Henley Literary Festival schools programme has been announced. It will run from October 4 to 8 and feature World Book Day illustrator Rob Biddulph, who will present his novel Peanut Jones & The Illustrated City. Former children’s laureate and War Horse author Michael Morpurgo returns while Costa Children’s Book Award winner Natasha Farrant will present her new book, Voyage of the Sparrowhawk. Younger children will be entertained by Kjartan Poskitt and Alex Willmore as they continue the story of The Runaway Pe...

It was when she became a mother that she began to consider writing for children. “All 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 don’t know what you are going to be good at.” 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...