Francesca Simon spent her childhood on the beach in California, and then went to Yale and Oxford Universities to study medieval history and literature. She now lives in London with her family. She has written over 45 books and won the Children's Book of the Year in 2008 at the Galaxy British Book Awards for 'Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman'. Tony Ross is one of the most popular and successful of all children's illustrators, with many picture books to his name as well as line drawings for many fiction titles. Total sales across the HORRID HENRY range exceed 16 million copies.Sales of the Early Readers series have reached over 1 million copies.Hugely successful animated TV series on CITV. 2nd series now showing. Rights sold in 26 territories. Francesca Simon is one of the UK's top-selling children's authors and was the fifth most borrowed in 2010.Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend was the most borrowed children's title of 2009.'Forget Harry Potter, it's a wicked, spiteful boy who's really firing kids' imaginations' (Guardian). Full range of POS including posters, bookmarks, dumpbins and stickers.Fully updated website - www.horridhenry.co.uk Total UK sales across the HORRID HENRY range exceed 15.9 million copies.Sales of the Early Readers series reach over 655,000 copies.Hugely successful animated TV series on CITV. 2nd series now showing. Rights sold in 26 territories. Francesca Simon is one of the UK's top-selling children's authors and was the 3rd most borrowed in 2008.Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend was the most borrowed children's title of 2009.'Forget Harry Potter, it's a wicked, spiteful boy who's really firing kids' imaginations' (Guardian). Full range of POS including posters, bookmarks, dumpbins and stickers.Fully updated website - www.horridhenry.co.uk Total UK sales across the HORRID HENRY range exceed 15 million copies.Sales of the Early Readers series reach over 500,000 copies.Hugely successful animated TV series on CITV. 2nd series now showing. Rights sold in 24 territories. Francesca Simon is one of the UK's top-selling children's authors and was the 3rd most borrowed in 2008.Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend was the most borrowed children's title of 2009.'Forget Harry Potter, it's a wicked, spiteful boy who's really firing kids' imaginations' (Guardian). Full range of POS including posters, bookmarks, dumpbins and stickers.Fully updated website [www.horridhenry.co.uk] relaunching Oct 09. Total UK sales across the HORRID HENRY range exceed 16 million copies.Sales of the Early Readers series reach over 664,000 copies.Hugely successful animated TV series on CITV. 2nd series now showing. Rights sold in 26 territories. Francesca Simon is one of the UK's top-selling children's authors and was the 3rd most borrowed in 2008.Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend was the most borrowed children's title of 2009.'Forget Harry Potter, it's a wicked, spiteful boy who's really firing kids' imaginations' (Guardian). Full range of POS including posters, bookmarks, dumpbins and stickers.Fully updated website - www.horridhenry.co.uk Horrid Henry hates car journeys - especially when it means going to visit Prissy Polly and Pimply Paul, and missing Rude Ralph's birthday party. Watch out, Mum and Dad, because Henry is prepared to do whatever it takes to get out of this trip. A new edition of this much-loved Horrid Henry story, with new colour pictures and short, accessible chapters - ideal for newly confident readers. Watch out, Mum, Dad and Peter - Henry will do anything to stop this car journey!