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Tiny Torfs

Laugh   Love   Learn

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Extra info on the book
FORMATS

Skip if not relevant to you: this section commenting the pictures below just give some extra technical info, especially regarding the paper quality and the formats of my paperback books. The bottom line is that you can contact me should you be interested in (a minimum bulk quantity of ) special formats, black background paper, or hard cover versions, to see what I can do for you (in Europe). The explanation: printing coloured photobooks is very expensive and as I always try to offer my books at the lowest price possible I decided to publish them with Amazon KDP, also because my CatPhotoBooks are in the first place just story-telling picture books rather than real artbooks you might want to have in coffeetable version, so with hardcover. I'm quite satisfied with the quality, considering the low cost, but Amazon KDP works with local printers of the countries where the order is placed, meaning the quality can vary, and they don't even do hardcovers for photobooks nor do they print on black background (which is not a problem for my Rome photobook as the pictures fully cover the pages, but you might prefer the Rome book to have a hard cover for example). Concerning the "Test your English" picture below showing two versions of my book: please mind that the black edition (as in the Bookstore) is the only regular one to buy, given that the first (white) version was on the market with Zanichelli from 2008 till 2017, and now we're speaking 2025:), so thank you for keeping an eye on that too. As to the Owl and Mouse dialogue: this book is based on "The Big Book of Comfort - A book about Love and other Disgraces", as explained better in the Bookstore. Last but not least: the first version of my Rome book that you can see in one of the pictures below has only a different cover image, compared to the new, recent edition with the couple seagulls on the cover.
Thank you for hearing me out and I hope this was helpful!

Extra info on the book CONTENTS

I would like to renew my gratitude for you still being here, sticking with me and my explanations - you might feel like you've just come out of a puzzle championship - so the good news is we've come to the Gallery part.
The photos you can see there are just meant to give an idea of the kind of things that usually catch my eye - whether they ended up in my books or not. Naturally, if you love cat pictures, my "Marriage: Madness or Miracle?" is a must-have, with its fantastic four protagonists. If you love the beauty of Rome in all its expressions (architecture, nature, special views, locations, details etc.) you know what book is for you. And that is only the visual part - because as you can read in the Bookstore my photobooks have very concrete contents too - be it a CatLoveStory, a romantic-ironic love poem with "soft" traveltips, or a funny-philosophical metaphorical dialogue between an owl and a mouse - all of them offering good advice for the lovetroubled by the way. That seems to be the common denominator for all the books I have out there - except for the Italian language book of course, although I'm sure love is all about (body)language as language is about love (or the lack of it).
Now I'll really stop talking to let you sit back and enjoy my gallery, even if - just like my music on this little introduction website - for now it's just a tiny selection - what's in a word:)

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Sharing beauty and moods

Tiny Torfs

" The only love you keep is the one that you give "

I guess my passion for creation - whether in writing, music, choreography or photography - has always been about creating beauty, or capturing it - the beauty of a moment, mood or memory - so I could share it with family, friends, or with anybody in this world who could benefit from it. I have always loved teaching because for me that's a very creative process too, where imagination, humor and empathy play a crucial role. I love the concept of helping people to find a way or their way to acquire knowledge through beauty and fun. I love the concept of educating, engaging and entertaining at the same time, also because even a book becomes a game if you don’t have to but you want to understand what’s going on in the story, and that goes for both children and adults. I have always tried to make studying an attractive business by making it playful and amusing, and ironically speaking I can only do that because I'm very serious about how to be efficient in teaching. I've always tried to find, invent, create, discover innovative tricks, games, methods to make whatever discipline one is trying to master more fun. This probably also explains how my award-winning Dance-to-English method came about, where the choreography that I would teach would be like the physical translation of the contents of the song, and by singing the words while dancing/acting out the contents of the song, the association mechanism in the brain would kick off, linking the word to the movement and the other way round. Also, our brain automatically selects and fixes information much better in function of positive feelings, impressions and emotions the owner of that brain (lucky guy) experiences while trying to get that information in. From the heart to the brain. Only one of my books is an explicitly didactic one (Test your English - the ex-Zanichelli bestseller, now self-published), using a pleasant game method I developed, not meaning it is therefore less scientific (because it is, a 100 percent, and it covers English grammar and vocabulary painpoints completely). My other books are mainly entertaining or focussing on self-help, though in a very relaxed, humorous way. My catpicturebooks are entertaining and educating, on values that are important in relationships, and they teach languages in a hidden way, which is what I call "spontaneous language learning". So whatever book will be yours, I hope from the bottom of my heart something in there will make you smile, laugh, love, learn or dream, a bit harder, a bit better, a bit more.

Love and language, pictures and pets,
Italy, flowers, music and cats:
I guess that is what I'm about
and soon I'll have more, beyond any doubt
cause when there's something nice I see
I usually don't wanna keep it for me
So thank you for having a closer look
and thanks a million for buying a book
I'm sure it's a choice you will not regret
whether you do or don't have a pet
And should you be feeling a little bit low
you might wanna listen to the song below
I wrote it for a special friend
but it might cheer up others too in the endWith love, from Tiny

Per gli amici italiani: nei link è disponibile anche la descrizione italiana per ogni libro bilingue
Lieve vrienden, in de links vind je ook de nederlandstalige beschrijving van de boeken in jouw taal. Wens je veel leesgenot!

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