Essays on life that will resonate deeply as readers discover how universal insights can be found in ordinary events. More than thirty 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. Today, after being embraced around the world and selling more than seven million copies, Fulghum’s book retains the potency of 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 United States. 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 editions since the first publication of this book, Robert Fulghum has had some time to ponder, to reevaluate, and to reconsider, adding fresh thoughts on classic topics including a short new introduction. Praise for All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten “A healthy antidote to the horrors that pummel us in this dicey age.”—Baltimore Sun “Within simplicity lies the sublime.”—San Francisco Chronicle “It is interesting how much of it applies not only to individuals, grown or small, but even to nations.”—New York Daily News “As universal as fresh air and invigorating as the fragrance of a Douglas fir.”—Los Angeles Times

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

Self-Help

Robert Fulghum

Motivational

Ballantine Books

Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. This book to raise the spirits and warm the heart includes the famous "Kindergarten" essay that was read on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

Random House]

When asked what he does, Robert Fulghum usually replies that he is a philosopher, and explains that what he likes to do is to think about everyday things and then to express what he thinks by writing, speaking or painting. This is a collection of his favourite observations, written over the years, that reveal simple truths about small lives with big meanings.

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Grafton Books

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Paperback. Pub Date :1990-10-11 Pages: 171 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK When asked what he does. Robert Fulghum usually replies that he is a philosopher. and explains that what he likes to do is to think about everyday things and then to express what he thinks by writing. speaking or painting. This is a collection of his favourite observations. written over the years. that reveal simple truths about small lives with big meanings.

Happiness

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

After his triumphant All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum returns with a richer, more mature, more strikingly memorable collection of essays guaranteed to provide hours of heart-warming, humorous entertainment.

It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

Villard Books

Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude

A crazy chronicle, in words and mostly embarrassing pictures, describes a road trip with fifteen of America's most popular writers, who leave their jobs to hit the road--on a bus--as a performing rock and roll band. 75,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

Literature & Fiction

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dave Barry

RIDLEY PEARSON

Roy Blount

Al Kooper

Kathi Goldmark

Amy, Tan

Stephen, King

Humor & Satire

VIKING

The mega-bestselling author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten now gives us his latest observations in a brand new AudioBook that is as wise, witty and down-to-earth as ever.Taking as his premise the undeniable fact that truth is often stranger than fiction, Fulghum continues to inspire us with enlightenments encountered in the most unexpected ways and places. Whether the subject is barber shop mythology or the shifting significance of nicknames over the course of a lifetime, Maybe (Maybe Not) is Robert Fulghum at his extraordinary best -- making us a little more aware of the richness, fullness and joyousness of life.

Maybe, Maybe Not: Second Thoughts on a Secret Life

Random House Audio Books

The beloved author of All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten presents more memorable observations and commentary that range from an account of a disastrous Christmas pageant to travelogues. (Religion &amp; Inspiration).

It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

Random House, Large Print

What on Earth Have I Done

Sound Library

From the author to the reader: Show-and-Tell was the very best part of school for me, both as a student and as a teacher. As a kid, I put more into getting ready for my turn to present than I put into the rest of my homework. Show-and-Tell was real in a way that much of what I learned in school was not. It was education that came out of my life experience. As a teacher, I was always surprised by what I learned from these amateur hours. A kid I was sure I knew well would reach down into a paper bag he carried and fish out some odd-shaped treasure and attach meaning to it beyond my most extravagant expectation. Again and again I learned that what I thought was only true for me . . . only valued by me . . . only cared about by me . . . was common property. The principles guiding this book are not far from the spirit of Show-and-Tell. It is stuff from home—that place in my mind and heart where I most truly live. P.S. This volume picks up where I left off in All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, when I promised to tell about the time it was on fire when I lay down on it.

Ivy Books

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

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

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

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude

Maybe, Maybe Not: Second Thoughts on a Secret Life

It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

What on Earth Have I Done

It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It