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About Our Tower
Growing up in a tower block provided the inspiration for a magical storybook.
  1. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  2. Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
    01:23
    Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
  3. A proof reading
    05:09
    A proof reading
  4. How Henry happened
    05:58
    How Henry happened
  5. Ideas for Henry's stories
    07:00
    Ideas for Henry's stories
  6. Not a Horrid Henry book
    02:16
    Not a Horrid Henry book
  7. Tips for budding writers
    03:41
    Tips for budding writers
  8. Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:30
    Q&A with Francesca Simon
  9. More Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:21
    More Q&A with Francesca Simon
  10. Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
    01:05
    Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
  11. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  12. Acting and Writing
    05:49
    Acting and Writing
  13. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  14. Questions from schools
    07:40
    Questions from schools
  15. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  16. How to Draw Granville's Head
    04:23
    How to Draw Granville's Head
  17. Writing historical fiction
    03:58
    Writing historical fiction
  18. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  19. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
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