2001 for Gemma Bovery, Simmonds won the 2009 Prix de la critique of the French Association of comics critics and journalists for Tamara Drewe. In 2022 she was awarded the Grand Prix Töpffer (named after Rodolphe Töpffer, the author of the earliest comic strips) by the city of Geneva, Switzerland. Selected bibliography The Posy Simmonds Bear Book (1969) Bear (1974) More Bear (1975) Mrs Weber's Diary (1979) True Love (1981) Pick of Posy (1982) Very Posy (1985) Pure Posy (1987) Mustn't Grumble (1993) Gemma Bovery (1999) Literary Life (2003) Tamara Drewe (2007) Cassandra Darke (2018) Children's books Fred (1987) Lulu and the Flying Babies (1988) The Chocolate Wedding (1990) Matilda: Who Told Lies and Was Burned To Death (1991) Bouncing Buffalo (1994)F-Freezing ABC (1996) Cautionary Tales And Other Verses (1997) Mr Frost (2001, in Little Litt #2) Lavender (2003) Baker Cat (2004) Television/film scripts The Frog Prince (1984) Tresoddit for Easter (1991) Famous Fred (1996) References External links Tamara Drewe archive Literary Life archive Lambiek comiclopedia entry on Posy Simmonds Profile from the British Council's "Magic Pencil" exhibition Posy Simmonds talks drawing, writing and Tamara Drewe with ITV Local Anglia Clive James interview with Posy Simmonds BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs, first broadcast on 29 June 2008 Paul Gravett interview MsLexia profile/interview Telegraph profile/interview Guardian profile/interview "Tamara Drewe's Wessex: an article in the TLS'' by Mick Imlah, 14 November 2007 British cartoonists British graphic novelists British female comics artists 1945 births People from Cookham Living people British children's writers The Guardian journalists Members of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature People educated at Queen Anne's School Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design Female comics writers