about tiger

Patrick Before Patrick Jennings was an author of children’s books he was a boy—a boy who read children’s books. He lived in a small town in Indiana, and his nickname was Tiger. No, it wasn’t. He had a friend with a nickname of Tiger. He just wished he’d been called that. He never had a nickname, in fact. But let’s humor him. Authors require humoring from time to time. Often, actually.

When Tiger was in third, fourth, and fifth grades, his house was a block away from his school, two blocks from the public library, and three blocks from the county jail from which infamous gangster John Dillinger once escaped. This happened before Tiger was born. Nothing exciting ever happened in his hometown again.

Tiger checked out lots of books from the school library and the public library, although he only finished the ones he couldn’t stop reading. Now he writes books he hopes kids won’t stop reading. Click on tiger’s books and you’ll find out about the ones he’s published. The ones he hasn’t published languish in his filing cabinet. Don’t mention them around him. Authors don’t care to be reminded of rejection.

A lot of stuff happened to Tiger during his life, including growing into an adult, though not expertly. Most of this stuff (a.k.a. his biography) is hazy to him, much like the photo of him on this page.* If you have specific questions about Tiger’s life to date, click on faq. Maybe somebody else has already asked and he was able to pluck the answers out of the quag that is his brain. If you do not find your questions listed in faq, click on gab and shoot Tiger your query via email. He’ll be glad to hear from you. Authors like to know they exist.

Many of Tiger’s books are about beasts, like you. He claims this is because children are beasts, like you. In fact, he describes himself as a beast who writes beast stories for beasts. Like you. Tiger likes beasts (like you) and collects interesting facts about them. If you too like beasts (like you), click on beasts and see what you find. If you have beastly facts to share, send them via gab post haste. If they withstand the painstaking scrutiny of Tiger’s fact-checkers, who don't exist, Tiger will post them, with attribution (i.e., your name).

Finally, Tiger would like you—and the librarians, teachers, parents and any other adults who may be looking over your shoulders—to know that he just adores visiting schools, libraries, bookstores, conferences and such to talk about himself and his books and his hair, etc. Click on visits for more information.

As the last paragraph began with “Finally,” nothing more can be written.