Peter Taylor

Thanks so much! Let me know if there's ever a way I can help you, and if your 6th graders want ideas. Maybe I should start a YouTube channel on all kinds of creative possibilities, like easy artistic papermaking and...

I learnt to write Italic at school when I was 9 in the UK. It can be addictive 😀

Love this - thanks for posting Victoria!

Traditionally created art that's different, plus self-illustration with photography

My agent for 10 years has retired...seeking a new one.

#BP, #MG & #YA author + how-to for adults.

#kidlitpostcard #kidlitartpostcardday #kidlitartpostcard
#calligraphy

Going through my grandmother's #scrapbook album from about 1885.

Not what we would send as a New Year card...

#Vintage #Antique #Victoriana

#AmQuerying my idea and sample sections for a Giant Book of Small Things children's parents, grandparents and ancestors may have owned or used.

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.

Working on 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, including world record holders for the smallest of their kind. #KidLit #NF #AmQuerying #Vintage Sample chapters & proposal completed.

In about 1980, I was given these prints—taken off the original #ThomasBewick woodblocks.

Can anyone please tell me if they were printed in a book, or books, and which one/ones (not Select Fables or History of Quadrupeds, I believe)?

Thank you!
#Illustration
@sandbish.bsky.social

Recorded family history is valued. Love my G-grandfather's diary of his wedding. Recorded anecdotes can later be used in stories, too.
My favorite activity for #schoolVisits:
Describe something funny a neighbor has done an add it inside a folding card of their house. We create a story streetscape.

The #vintage Marigold Painting Book by #KateGreenaway gives very sophisticated instructions for adding colour to the outlines provided.
#Illustration.
...cold colours which are to serve as shadows to warmer colours should be laid on first.

How many kids are taught that today in colouring books?

From my British grandmother's #vintage #Antique #scrapbook album (1880/90s I think). At least the top half of the scrap matches #KateGreenaway's 'Under the Window' cover picture.

Did she design and sell the scraps herself or through her publisher, or...?

Hablot Knight Browne, Phiz, provided #illustration for several authors, usually did three watercolours a day & etched 1,603 plates for #Dickens. Some wore out and he redid them: spot the differences. As a commission he also painted watercolours of all the etchings for the Dickens' works.

Love this, and how his trees seem to take an active part in the story. I believe it would have been printed on a three colour press, and he developed and limited his watercolour palette to suit.

Help, please! When did adding a type letter & painting over it stop?

Is it 1470s Nicolas Jenson type as ascenders of 'd' extend below the baseline—how long was his type used after he died? Johann Amerbach is supposed to have printed the first Roman face—whose type?

Thanks!
#typography #typesetting

Not sure of the age of these leaves I own - about 1600?

How did they manage to cut the punches so small...and the paper is incredibly thin!

#Typography #Typesetting

Can't wait. This artwork and that on Greer's website is amazing!

Brilliant! Best wishes from Australia.

Encouraging children and adults to read, write, and be creative.

Seeking commissions and a new agent - my last one for 10 years has retired. Please investigate my www.writing-for-children.com website!

#kidLitARTpostcard #illustration

TIP from my potential book on improving handwriting:

Sit on a wedge-shaped cushion, or raise the chair's rear legs to spread your weight over your thighs. It's no longer on the base of your spine—far more comfortable ...for drawing and typing, too.

And a sloping board helps.

#writing #amquerying

Banknotes are easily hidden in a wallet, and potential subjects for my proposed GIANT BOOK OF SMALL THINGS.

Does anyone else have few trillion dollars in their wallet?.
(From Zimbabwe, 2007-8)

#KidLit #MG #AmQuerying

Brilliant - thanks!

Thanks, Sheri! No, I only want trad pub for my PB texts (one pub'd). I'm just not a 'traditional PB illustrator'—no people or animals. I do word art, photos, & illustrate my n-f crafts books (pub'd).
But if someone else draws the animal outlines, I'd offer cut & torn paper illos for my goose story.

I write & illustrate non-fiction how-to (pub'd), & write picture book texts (pub'd). I don't illustrate PBs the traditional way...though I would like to calligraphically illustrate an alphabet book. I wonder, can I query agents who want author-illustrators?
#kidlit #amquerying #illustration

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).

Diverge😆...my agent for 10 years has retired before me. I've begun querying my proposed photographically self-illustrated book of antique and vintage small things kids' parents, grandparents, and ancestors may have owned or used. Hope you are soon open again and like it!

These are brilliant!

Can we have / do we have something similar for the boxes sold in Australia with 21x11.5cm tops?

Of all the National Geographic magazines I seen and read, the most memorable is the one that covered Mt St Helens.

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.

Happy birthday from Australia! A query has been sent.

Please post & show us interesting items from your ephemera collection. I'm hoping to include paper ephemera in my proposed Giant Book of Small Things. Here are late 1800s trade cards from my hoard. I believe they were given away in stores.

Who is celebrating Walpurgis Night on April 30th - halfway to Halloween?

The top four notes are 1920s German notgeld 'emergency money' vouchers.

I'd love to discover more about the painting used for the postcard.

I wonder what feature of current #boardgames will be unacceptable in the future.

From about 1953.

I'm long retired. At the start of every (science) lesson, I slowly drew a letter in calligraphy on the corner of the board. Bored kids or those who finished a set task early could try it if they wanted. 40 years later I've had thanks from former students who are complimented on their writing skills.

I wonder, will this seed & elephant carving make it into my potential 'GIANT BOOK OF SMALL THINGS' for ages 11+? My uncle brought it home from India after WWII. Some seeds had 100 elephants...sadly, carved by children, whose eyesight was ruined. One secret wish per elephant...
#kidlit #AmQuerying

I volunteered at a museum, too—later, offered the 'natural history curator' position for a year. Sad it wasn't permanent!

Vinnies. Over the years, committees of: SCBWI; the Childen's Book Council of Australia; Calligraphy, Naturalists', Photography & Science Societies; walking holidays for kids.