verything that exists in the world can be divided into two groups: big and small. This makes the world interesting: it seems to be so simple! However, small things get big and big things get small, and sometimes everything seems to be simultaneously big and small. We also say that our planet is big then turn around and say it’s a small world after all. If we exaggerate a little, we could say that this is all we know about the world. It is also the only thing that we can clearly affirm about things in the world: this is big, that is small. When there is a juicy steak and we have a big appetite, we say: "what a small steak"; and when our appetite is small: "what a big steak". When we move into an empty house, we say: "what a big room"; then a short time later, when we have filled it with books, children, flies, and harps: "it’s a small room after all!".

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We always know exactly when things are big or small. Perhaps, if we exaggerate a little, we can say this is all we know. For a time, we were a very small thing that kept growing until we got big, then we get small once more. Just when we think that we are big and freely move around the world, this is when we realize just how small we really are. The world grows as we learn more about it, but it also becomes smaller. Books, which are relatively small objects, tell us about the things in the world: cows, volcanoes, stars. All these things fit into a book, thus–if we exaggerate a little – we can say that all these things are smaller than the book that contains them.

This book collection is called "big and SMALL" because some are big and others are small. We aren’t saying anything about the age and the size of our readers, we are just referring to the size of the books, because we have discovered that there are children who are big readers and there are big people who are very small, almost insignificant readers.

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