Peter Taylor

@petertaylor.bsky.social

275 Followers 332 Following

Author & illustrator of kids' & craft books; past SCBWI Coordinator & science & art teacher; calligrapher, photographer & artist's book maker. My agent for 10 years has retired...seeking new representation. www.writing-for-children.com

Small objects, potentially for a 'Book of Small Things' children's parents, grandparents, and ancestors around the world may have used - fully self-illustrated with photos. Bottom middle: The world's smallest banknotes from Romania and Morocco.
A selection of tiny objects including buttons, US Tax Tokens, Indian Manjadi seed with an elephant carving that fits inside, Victorian age buttoned baby shoes, and right, the world's smallest banknotes from Romania and Morocco.
THE GIANT BOOK OF SMALL THINGS: a self-illustrated #MG #YA compendium of tiny objects kids' parents, grandparents or ancestors may have owned or used. It includes world record holders for the smallest of their kind. A 1994 Uzbekistan 1 tyin coin was worth $1/200,000, £1/303,000.
Small antique books the size of a one fluid ounce bottle of ink - songs for children, Tennyson's poetry, a prayer book, Shakespeare's Henry VI, and a short moral story as a tiny book given in 1849 to a child at a UK charity school...which they probably wouldn't have enjoyed (the book or the school).
A late 1800s advert for Le Page's glue - the police are trying to arrest a man who's stuck to a bench seat. Under it is an trade card advert for Coats' cotton that is holding Gulliver down.
The covers of Peter Taylor's 19 calligraphy books.
Crepe bandage wrapped around a thin tiny paintbrush.
Pointed eyeliner brushes used for painting fine detail and very thin lines.
Rectangular olympic medal won by Paul Moreau
Collection of small things from around the globe, including world record holders as the smallest of their kind.
Collection of small things - world's lowest value coin, smallest doll, tiny stamps, ink bottles brooch, fibula brooch, uno stencils