Simon Cowell gets star advice on plan to write children's book

After Twitter anger at his disdain for the genre, Michael Rosen and Philip Ardagh both offer tips to the celebrity on how to avoid being boring

The award-winning children’s author Philip Ardagh has suggested that Simon Cowell visit a library for expert literary advice, after the Britain’s Got Talent judge announced that he was planning to write his own children’s book because most are “quite boring”.

Cowell told a US television show that he had “read a lot of these children’s books” to his two-year-old son, “and they’re quite boring. I think I could do it better.” His own title, he said, would “be about animals”, and would include a character based on himself, “obviously a sort of hero figure”.

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