A small house, on purpose.
Tinderbox publishes books that treat the reader like they can handle the truth. Picture books that use the real words — died, divorce, different. Coloring books that pair the illustration with the actual research. Nonfiction that turns decades of study into something you can use on a Tuesday.
The house is organised as a set of imprints rather than one flat list, because a book about a grandparent dying and a book about Mercury retrograde should not arrive in the same voice. Each imprint gets its own colour and its own tone. The frame stays warm and stays out of the way.
The imprints
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imprint · 01
The Wild Littles
Picture books for the hard conversations — divorce, grief, being different. Told straight, for kids who can handle the truth.
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imprint · 02
Unfold
Art Nouveau coloring books that pair intricate illustration with the real science of calm.
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imprint · 03
Thimble Hollow
Cozy allegories from a village stitched out of thread and buttons.
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imprint · 04
Lumora
Watercolor allegories for slightly older readers.
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imprint · 05
The Science of Flourishing
Illustrated positive psychology, made practical.
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imprint · 06
Mercury Made Me Do It
And one gleefully unhinged astrology coloring book. Range matters.
The names on the covers
Tinderbox publishes under pen names, one to an imprint. It is a small house; the names are a way of keeping each imprint's voice its own, not a way of pretending to be a large one.
- The Wild Littles
- Aurthor Figglesby
- Unfold
- James Lyte
- Thimble Hollow
- Aurthor Figglesby
- Lumora
- Jane Lyons
- The Science of Flourishing
- Dr. Jeff Dean
- Mercury Made Me Do It
- pen name to be announced