When Nanda is born, the whole of her world is the circle of her mother's
arms. But as she grows, the world grows too. It expands outward--from
her family, to her friends, to the city, to the countryside. And as it
expands, so does Nanda's wonder in the underlying shapes and structures
patterning it: cogs and wheels, fractals in snowflakes. Eventually,
Nanda's studies lead her to become an astronaut and see the small, round
shape of Earth far away. A geometric meditation on wonder, Small World
is a modern classic that expresses our big and small place in the vast
universe.