Chris Priestley (born 1957) is a British children's book author and illustrator. He lives in Cambridge, England. == Biography and career == Chris Priestley grew up in Wales and Gibraltar, where as a nine-year-old, he won a medal in a local newspaper's story-writing competition. In 1976, after spending his teens in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he left to study illustration at Manchester Polytechnic, leaving in 1980 to freelance in London. He worked as an illustrator for a wide range of clients and his…