Teeny Ted from Turnip town was standing in the street
singing his favourite turnip tune and tapping with his feet.
The world’s smallest book is not available at Chapters, Indigo Books or even your local independent bookstore. Nor is it residing in the vault of an academic library at a prestigious university.
It is, however, kept in one of the most secure bank vaults in Canada and is so tiny, 70 micrometers by 100 micrometers, that you need a scanning electron microscope to read it. This year, Teeny Ted from Turnip Town has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as “the smallest book yet made.” Published by Robert Chaplin, a Vancouver author, illustrator and artist and written by his brother, Malcom Douglas Chaplin, it was etched onto a microchip with an ion beam at the Nano Imaging Facility at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. Robert is in the final days of a fundraising campaign to take this very teeny book and turn it into a large print edition that “will not get lost on your bookshelf.” Robert Chaplin is also a 2010 Alcuin Award book winner for his children’s book Brussels Sprouts & Unicorns.
The story is amazing, but best told in Robert’s own words.
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