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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

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SF Said@whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 8mo ago

And if you're looking for new children's books, @tygertale.bsky.social has just updated his crowd-sourced list of the Best Children's Books of the 21st Century. It's a wonderful list that shows this really is a golden age - just have a look! tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...

The 100 Best Children’s Books of the 21st Century

In September the Guardian published the 100 books of the 21st Century. It contained only five children’s books, two of which were published in the year 2000 – wrong century – and featur…

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Dom Conlon@domconlon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

When there’s an article about reading, the author often focuses on the C20th as if they too don’t understand the link between not reading and not feeling represented. Thankfully, @tygertale.bsky.social put this list together Tell me what you agree/disagree with tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...

The 100 Best Children’s Books of the 21st Century

In September the Guardian published the 100 books of the 21st Century. It contained only five children’s books, two of which were published in the year 2000 – wrong century – and featur…

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Jake Hayes@tygertale.bsky.social · last yr.

Sad to hear about the passing of Rosemary Sandberg, co-founder of the Puffin Club with Kaye Webb and later editor of Collins' rival to Puffin, Lions and Picture Lions. I interviewed Rosemary about her fascinating career in 2017, you can read the piece here: tygertale.com/2017/03/28/r...

Rosemary Sandberg – From the Puffin Club to Picture Lions

Last week saw the 50th anniversary of the hugely influential Puffin Club, the children’s book group that brought a generation of readers together with each other and their favourite authors. By coi…

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Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · last yr.

The pressure to publish more and faster was one of the most frustrating things about working in publishing. If I could say ONE thing to the publishing industry about how to make things better, it would be this: do not publish anything you are not going to support well with marketing.

Alom Shaha@alomshaha.bsky.social · last yr.

I think a simple solution to making the publishing industry better, in lots of ways, would be for the big publishers to just publish fewer books and give more care and attention to the ones they do publish. It’s probably why authors with small publishers often feel better treated (not always).

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2y ago

‘Children’s writing is by far the work I find hardest, because it has its own urgent imperatives, and its own laws, and those laws are both the laws of writing and the laws of childhood: laws that must be taken seriously.’ Katherine Rundell: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?

Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

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Paul Tobin@paultobin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Actual pro tip: the best way to break into any creative profession is by helping to support and advance other creators. Your peers are not your adversaries. They are your support group.

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm keen to read more in-depth articles on children's books and I'd love your recommendations - there are sites like Leaf and School Library Journal that I've found great stuff on but there's so much. I'm particularly interested in fantasy, comedy, middle grade/8-12 books (any combo) #KidLitUK

Jake Hayes@tygertale.bsky.social · 2y ago

"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.

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