Jason Cockcroft

Jason Cockcroft is an award-winning author and illustrator. He was born in New Zealand, grew up in Leeds, and studied illustration at Falmouth School of Art, now Falmouth University. He is the illustrator of a huge number of picture books and middle grade books in the UK and the US, most notably producing three of the original UK covers for the Harry Potter series published by Bloomsbury. His picture books include Song Of Sun And Sky and Night Walk. He is the author of We Were Wolves and Running With Horses, which were both longlisted for the Carnegie award.