Chris Mould

Chris Mould is a British illustrator and author, born in 1969 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and trained in graphic design and illustration at Leeds Polytechnic. He is best known for writing and illustrating his own children's fiction, including the gothic adventure series Something Wickedly Weird, the swashbuckling Pocket Pirates books, and the Pip / Spindlewood Tales. Alongside his own stories, Mould has illustrated classic and contemporary texts for major publishers, including editions of Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and Matt Haig's A Boy Called Christmas series. His work has received the Nottingham Children's Book Award and the Swiss Prix Enfantasie Best Children's Novel Award, and he was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2013 for Pirates 'n' Pistols and again in 2020 for his illustrations of The Iron Man. Mould lives and works from a studio in Halifax, West Yorkshire.