Small is a grain of sand like the ones we find on all beaches. He has many friends like crabs, shells and snails. And when he gets tired from the beach, he holds on tight to a bather’s foot and sets off to see the world. Third story from the Learn to Read collection in UPPER CASE and lowercase letters , which is arranged according to reading difficulty with number 1 being the easiest and number 9 being the most challenging. Each page contains the same text: above in lowercase letters and below in CAPITAL LETTERS (upper case). It enables capital letters and the change towards printed characters to be worked on. At the end of the book, you can discover a message to think about it. Collection titles: 1) Bernard, The Fireman 2) Brave 3) Small, A Happy Grain Of Sand 4) The Fireless Dragon 5) Simba The Lion 6) The Pirate’s Treasure 7) The Man With Three Hairs 8) The Yellow Car 9) Long Trunk The collection is designed to learn to read and is arranged according to reading difficulty. ___________________ Pequeño es un granito de arena como el de cualquier playa. Tiene muchos amigos, cangrejos, conchas y caracolillos. Y, cuando se cansa de la playa, se agarra bien fuerte al pie de uno de los bañistas y se va a ver mundo. Pequeño, el granito de arena travieso es el tercer cuento de la colección Aprender a leer en letra MAYÚSCULA e imprenta , que está ordenada en función de la dificultad lectora siendo el número 1 el más sencillo y el número 9 el más complejo. En cada página se encuentra el mismo texto: arriba en letra de imprenta y abajo en letra de PALO (mayúsculas) . Permite trabajar la lectura en letra mayúscula y el cambio hacia la letra de imprenta Permite trabajar los siguientes valores: • Cuidar a la familia y amigos • Imaginación • Relajación COLECCIÓN APRENDER A LEER • 1. Daniel, el bombero • 2. Valiente • 3. Pequeño, el granito de arena travieso • 4. El dragón que no tenía fuego • 5. Simba, el león • 6. El tesoro del pirata • 7. El hombre que tenía tres pelos • 8. El coche amarillo • 9. Trompa larga La colección está pensada para aprender a leer y se ordena en función de la dificultad lectora.

"I have learned more about, and become more fascinated with sand from reading this book than I have from studying beaches for thirty-five years! An amazing story."--Reinhard E. Flick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego "A masterful, entertaining and accessible treatise on the complex world of common sand."--Bruce M. Pavlik, author of The California Deserts "To do justice to this formidable and glorious subject, you need not only to be in love with it, but also to possess tremendous breadth of knowledge, have the eyes of a poet, scientist and geographer, and be intrepid enough to have seen the deserts of the world at first hand. Fortunately, Michael Welland fits the bill. It is hard to see how this paean to the wonders and mysteries of sand could be bettered."--Philip Ball, author of Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another and Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water "A fascinating and colorfully written book filled with insights and wit about the magical material called sand."--Stephen P. Leatherman (aka Dr Beach), author of America's Best Beaches "Sand has given rise to commentary, both poetic and scientific, from the earliest human times. Michael Welland ably winnows this literature, making the subject of sand his base station for a journey around the whole earth system. An impressive achievement."--Andrew Alden, author/editor of About.com's Guide to Geology "Michael Welland offers a popular, imaginative, and scientific evocation of sand as the creator of the world we experience and seek to understand. Sand is a timely meditation on things both large and small that simultaneously opens the door to the oldest geology and our most recent history."--Joseph Amato, author of Dust: A History of the Small and the Invisible

A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres' stained-glass windows to your iPhone, sand shelters us, empowers us, engages us, and inspires us. It's the ingredient that makes possible our cities, our science, our lives--and our future. And, incredibly, we're running out of it. The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it--and sometimes, even kill for it. It's also a provocative examination of the serious human and environmental costs incurred by our dependence on sand, which has received little public attention. Not all sand is created equal: Some of the easiest sand to get to is the least useful. Award-winning journalist Vince Beiser delves deep into this world, taking readers on a journey across the globe, from the United States to remote corners of India, China, and Dubai to explain why sand is so crucial to modern life. Along the way, readers encounter world-changing innovators, island-building entrepreneurs, desert fighters, and murderous sand pirates. The result is an entertaining and eye-opening work, one that is both unexpected and involving, rippling with fascinating detail and filled with surprising characters.

The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.