Jake Hayes
@tygertale.bsky.social
Writer, bookseller, audio describer | Children's books blog tygertale.com | Bath Spa #MAWYP grad | Dr Who | pop music | theatre | #TygertaleVintage books https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/tygertale
I'm looking for the best children's books of the 21st century. There are so many amazing graphic novels, fantasy, historical, picture books, contemporary, non-fiction and funny books that didn't make my original crowd sourced list - please tell me yours! tygertale.com/2019/10/09/t... #kidlituk
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I'm looking for the best children's books of the 21st century. There are so many amazing graphic novels, fantasy, historical, picture books, contemporary, non-fiction and funny books that didn't make my original crowd sourced list - please tell me yours! tygertale.com/2019/10/09/t... #kidlituk
Pick up a Picture Puffin with 25% off (along with everything else) in the #TygertaleVintage January sale.
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January 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Pick up a Picture Puffin with 25% off (along with everything else) in the #TygertaleVintage January sale.
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Entering my black and white era
January 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Entering my black and white era
Sniffup!
I'm having a little January sale in the #TygertaleVintage children's bookshop. 25% off everything (including hundreds of Puffin books) until Monday.
Spotera!
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I'm having a little January sale in the #TygertaleVintage children's bookshop. 25% off everything (including hundreds of Puffin books) until Monday.
Spotera!
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January 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Sniffup!
I'm having a little January sale in the #TygertaleVintage children's bookshop. 25% off everything (including hundreds of Puffin books) until Monday.
Spotera!
tygertale.etsy.com
I'm having a little January sale in the #TygertaleVintage children's bookshop. 25% off everything (including hundreds of Puffin books) until Monday.
Spotera!
tygertale.etsy.com
The illustrations to this grand edition by the Folio Society are by Laura Carlin. Her drawings mirror the text beautifully, combining the threat of the outside world with the safety of Will’s home. The cosy interiors are filled with natural elements, the exteriors thawed by bright spots of colour.
December 21, 2024 at 3:31 PM
The illustrations to this grand edition by the Folio Society are by Laura Carlin. Her drawings mirror the text beautifully, combining the threat of the outside world with the safety of Will’s home. The cosy interiors are filled with natural elements, the exteriors thawed by bright spots of colour.
Susan Cooper says she wrote the book after she had moved to America and was suffering from homesickness. It’s that memory and distance that gives Dark is Rising its peculiar dreamlike quality, one that matches the Christmas season with its ever present sense of nostalgia, perfectly.
December 21, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Susan Cooper says she wrote the book after she had moved to America and was suffering from homesickness. It’s that memory and distance that gives Dark is Rising its peculiar dreamlike quality, one that matches the Christmas season with its ever present sense of nostalgia, perfectly.
Susan Cooper draws on the deep, strange magic of the winter solstice. Her words together with Laura Carlin's artwork conjure up the Buckinghamshire landscapes in a vivid, hyperreal way that leave the reader constantly unsettled.
December 21, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Susan Cooper draws on the deep, strange magic of the winter solstice. Her words together with Laura Carlin's artwork conjure up the Buckinghamshire landscapes in a vivid, hyperreal way that leave the reader constantly unsettled.
"The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world… All the broad sky was grey, full of more snow that refused to fall."
The Dark is Rising opens on December 21st, the shortest day. Our hero Will Stanton is waiting for his eleventh birthday and the snow that will just not fall.
The Dark is Rising opens on December 21st, the shortest day. Our hero Will Stanton is waiting for his eleventh birthday and the snow that will just not fall.
December 21, 2024 at 3:23 PM
"The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world… All the broad sky was grey, full of more snow that refused to fall."
The Dark is Rising opens on December 21st, the shortest day. Our hero Will Stanton is waiting for his eleventh birthday and the snow that will just not fall.
The Dark is Rising opens on December 21st, the shortest day. Our hero Will Stanton is waiting for his eleventh birthday and the snow that will just not fall.
One day Mog woke up and nothing was right in her house. Christmas arrives in the Thomas household, bringing with it jolly uncles, aunts on tippy-toe and a walking tree.
Judith Kerr's Mog's Christmas, available in the #TygertaleVintage bookshop.
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Judith Kerr's Mog's Christmas, available in the #TygertaleVintage bookshop.
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December 17, 2024 at 7:11 PM
One day Mog woke up and nothing was right in her house. Christmas arrives in the Thomas household, bringing with it jolly uncles, aunts on tippy-toe and a walking tree.
Judith Kerr's Mog's Christmas, available in the #TygertaleVintage bookshop.
tygertale.etsy.com/listing/1245...
#TygertaleAdvent
Judith Kerr's Mog's Christmas, available in the #TygertaleVintage bookshop.
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Tomie dePaola Christmas Treasury #TygertaleAdvent
December 16, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Tomie dePaola Christmas Treasury #TygertaleAdvent
A Christmas Treasury - a beautiful Tomie dePaola collection of stories, poems, carols (including music), and even a play celebrating the diversity of Christmas traditions around the world. #TygertaleAdvent
Find a copy in the #tygertalevintage children's bookshop tygertale.etsy.com/listing/1829...
Find a copy in the #tygertalevintage children's bookshop tygertale.etsy.com/listing/1829...
December 16, 2024 at 8:01 PM
A Christmas Treasury - a beautiful Tomie dePaola collection of stories, poems, carols (including music), and even a play celebrating the diversity of Christmas traditions around the world. #TygertaleAdvent
Find a copy in the #tygertalevintage children's bookshop tygertale.etsy.com/listing/1829...
Find a copy in the #tygertalevintage children's bookshop tygertale.etsy.com/listing/1829...
The Snow Queen, illustrated by Errol Le Cain
December 14, 2024 at 8:38 PM
The Snow Queen, illustrated by Errol Le Cain
The Snow Queen. Exquisite adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, retold by Naomi Lewis and illustrated by Errol Le Cain. #TygertaleAdvent
1988 Picture Puffins edition for sale in the #TygertaleVintage children's bookshop
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1988 Picture Puffins edition for sale in the #TygertaleVintage children's bookshop
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December 14, 2024 at 8:09 PM
The Snow Queen. Exquisite adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, retold by Naomi Lewis and illustrated by Errol Le Cain. #TygertaleAdvent
1988 Picture Puffins edition for sale in the #TygertaleVintage children's bookshop
tygertale.etsy.com/listing/1133...
1988 Picture Puffins edition for sale in the #TygertaleVintage children's bookshop
tygertale.etsy.com/listing/1133...
The dark adds another layer of quiet to the already muffled pages whose muted tones are a salve against some of the primary coloured Christmas illuminations that surround us at this time of year. 5/5
Read my full review of The Snow Day here: tygertale.com/2016/12/09/t...
Read my full review of The Snow Day here: tygertale.com/2016/12/09/t...
December 13, 2024 at 2:12 PM
The dark adds another layer of quiet to the already muffled pages whose muted tones are a salve against some of the primary coloured Christmas illuminations that surround us at this time of year. 5/5
Read my full review of The Snow Day here: tygertale.com/2016/12/09/t...
Read my full review of The Snow Day here: tygertale.com/2016/12/09/t...
But full gratification is delayed until the final act, when mother and child finally set out into the white city where night has fallen – another unusual element in a picture book set in winter. 4/5
December 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM
But full gratification is delayed until the final act, when mother and child finally set out into the white city where night has fallen – another unusual element in a picture book set in winter. 4/5
The coming of the snow is just the beginning. The agony of a child waiting to go outside is amplified by the confines of their high rise home. Together on the balcony, the snow offers a moment of quiet contemplation as the city comes to a halt. 3/5
December 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM
The coming of the snow is just the beginning. The agony of a child waiting to go outside is amplified by the confines of their high rise home. Together on the balcony, the snow offers a moment of quiet contemplation as the city comes to a halt. 3/5
Like Beatrix Potter, Komako Sakai creates anthropomorphic animals we can happily accept in an incongruous setting. Pains have been taken to make this world of tower blocks and sodium lamps feel like somewhere a rabbit mother and child might live. 2/5
December 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Like Beatrix Potter, Komako Sakai creates anthropomorphic animals we can happily accept in an incongruous setting. Pains have been taken to make this world of tower blocks and sodium lamps feel like somewhere a rabbit mother and child might live. 2/5
The Snow Day by Komako Sakai is a rare winter themed picture book set in an urban environment, the most famous example of which is Ezra Jack Keats’s similarly titled The Snowy Day. 1/5
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December 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM
The Snow Day by Komako Sakai is a rare winter themed picture book set in an urban environment, the most famous example of which is Ezra Jack Keats’s similarly titled The Snowy Day. 1/5
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On a visit to Briggs's home in 1973, Kaye Webb spotted a painting of Father Christmas relaxing in the bath. His publisher had rejected the image as the cover to his latest book and Kaye immediately seized it for the winter edition of Puffin Post magazine.
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December 11, 2024 at 5:03 PM
On a visit to Briggs's home in 1973, Kaye Webb spotted a painting of Father Christmas relaxing in the bath. His publisher had rejected the image as the cover to his latest book and Kaye immediately seized it for the winter edition of Puffin Post magazine.
tygertale.com/2015/12/16/a...
tygertale.com/2015/12/16/a...
Sniffup! Raymond Briggs was good friends with the legendary Puffin Books editor Kaye Webb. Despite his reputation for being more grumpy than Father Christmas he found himself sucked into Kaye’s world of Puffin Club outings and general merriment 1/2 #TygertaleAdvent
December 11, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Sniffup! Raymond Briggs was good friends with the legendary Puffin Books editor Kaye Webb. Despite his reputation for being more grumpy than Father Christmas he found himself sucked into Kaye’s world of Puffin Club outings and general merriment 1/2 #TygertaleAdvent
Read my blog post here tygertale.com/2018/12/06/e...
December 9, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Read my blog post here tygertale.com/2018/12/06/e...
Eloise at Christmastime by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight. The wild young resident of the Plaza hotel takes a break from terrorising staff and guests to share a tender moment with her absolutely best friend Nanny, looking out over snow bound Central Park.
December 9, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Eloise at Christmastime by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight. The wild young resident of the Plaza hotel takes a break from terrorising staff and guests to share a tender moment with her absolutely best friend Nanny, looking out over snow bound Central Park.
December 8, 2024 at 5:58 PM