The Book of Tiny Little Things

This book consists of a series of poems about - well, tiny little things. I remember that as a child I tended to notice all sorts of small objects lying around that the adults didn't see - loose buttons in a corner, a pattern of crumbs that never got swept up, an ancient french fry under the back seat of the car, and so on.

I had lots of fun writing the poetry, which I mostly did while working in the backroom of a housewares and gadget store in Palo Alto, CA, opening boxes of dishwashing brushes and coat-hangers all day long.

There are 13 poems in all, their subjects ranging from strings to peanuts to twigs to pebbles and beyond.

This book has always been one of my favorite projects, a sort of homage to the great nonsense poets of the past - Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear and Walter de la Mare.

The first dummy I made, back in 1993 (or thereabouts) was done with a typewriter and a copy machine, but in 2007 I made a new dummy for the British market with my computer, along with a few new pictures.

Now I've finished all the pictures, and brought the book out with my friends over at the Red Admiral Press. It's available from Amazon websites the world over!