Jac Jones

{{short description|Welsh children's book illustrator}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|03|01|df=y}}

| birth_place = Gwalchmai, Anglesey

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| nationality = Welsh

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| education = Ysgol Gynradd Gwalchmai,
Ysgol Uwchradd Llangefni

| occupation = children's book illustrator

| years_active = since mid-1970s

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| awards = Tir na n-Og Award (1989, 1990, 1998, 2020)
Mary Vaughan Jones Award (2012)

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Jac Jones (born 1 March 1943) is a Welsh children's book illustrator.

He was born in Gwalchmai, Anglesey and raised in Bristol until the age of 7, before returning to Gwalchmai. He was educated at Ysgol Gynradd Gwalchmai and Ysgol Uwchradd Llangefni.

Jones has illustrated children's books since the mid-1970s. He has won the Tir na n-Og Award for several books, including the 2009 Award for A Nod from Nelson by Simon Weston.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cllc.org.uk/gwasanaethau-services/plant-children/gwobrau-prizes/tir-na-nog/rhestr-list |title=Tir na n-Og awards Past Winners |access-date=22 February 2010 |publisher=Welsh Books Council |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310093112/http://www.cllc.org.uk/gwasanaethau-services/plant-children/gwobrau-prizes/tir-na-nog/rhestr-list |archive-date=10 March 2012 }}{{Cite web |url= http://www.cllc.org.uk/newyddion-news/news-detail?id=11888|title= The 2009 Tir na n-Og Awards |accessdate= 22 February 2010|date= 16 April 2009 |publisher= The Welsh Book Council}} In 2000, he wrote and illustrated a book in both Welsh and English – Betsan a’r Bwlis / Alison and the Bully Monsters. His illustration work includes Welsh works of note such as Penillion y Plant, Trysorfa by T. Llew Jones and many of Mary Vaughan Jones' titles and famous characters including Jac y Jwc.

Jones won the Mary Vaughan Jones Award in 2012.{{cite news |title=Award for artist who gave life to children's favourite |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/award-artist-who-gave-life-2032755 |accessdate=17 April 2020 |work=Wales Online |date=19 April 2012}}