As well as being a number-one bestselling writer for adults Matt Haig has won the Blue Peter
Book Award the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal for
his stories for children and young adults. The idea for the A Boy Called Christmas series came
when his son asked what Father Christmas was like as a boy. Chris Mould went to art school at
the age of sixteen. He has won the Nottingham Children's Book Award and been commended by the
Sheffield Children's Book Award. He loves to write and draw the kind of books that he would
have liked to have had on his shelf as a boy. He is married with two children and lives in
Yorkshire.
