Full name: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

Author: Robert Fulghum Year: 1986 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Classic, Education, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780345466396 034546639X

Fifteen years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo--a credo that became the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Now, seven million copies later, Fulghum returns to the book that was embraced around the world. He has written a new preface and twenty-five essays, which add even more potency to a common, though no less relevant, piece of wisdom: that the most basic aspects of life bear its most important opportunities. Here Fulghum engages us with musings on life, death, love, pain, joy, sorrow, and the best chicken-fried steak in the continental U.S.A. The little seed in the Styrofoam cup offers a reminder about our own mortality and the delicate nature of life . . . a spider who catches (and loses) a full-grown woman in its web one fine morning teaches us about surviving catastrophe . . . the love story of Jean-Francois Pilatre and his hot air balloon reminds us to be brave and unafraid to "fly" . . . life lessons hidden in the laundry pile . . . magical qualities found in a box of crayons . . . hide-and-seek vs. sardines--and how these games relate to the nature of God. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten is brimming with the very stuff of life and the significance found in the smallest details. In the years that have passed since the first publication of this book that touched so many with its simple, profound wisdom, Robert Fulghum has had some time to ponder, to reevaluate, and to reconsider. And here are those fresh thoughts on classic topics, right alongside the wonderful new essays.Perhaps in today's chaotic, more challenging world, these essays on life will resonate even deeper--as readers discover how universal insights can be found in ordinary events.From the Trade Paperback edition. Similar books: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It by Robert Fulghum Uh-Oh by Robert Fulghum A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson Being Perfect by Anna Quindlen From Beginning to End by Robert Fulghum Cool, Calm & Contentious by Merrill Markoe Meaty by Samantha Irby Moranthology by Caitlin Moran People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby Half Empty by David Rakoff How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog by Lisa Scottoline Diaries, 1910-1923 by Franz Kafka Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka The Headmaster by John McPhee Book of My Mother by Albert Cohen The Diary of a Writer by Fyodor Dostoyevsky