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Title: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Reconsidered, Revised & Expanded With Twenty-Five New Essays by Robert Fulghum ISBN: 0-345-46617-9 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (48 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Buy it, read it, enjoy it, recommend it!
Comment: Robert Fulghum has written a book of philosophy disguised as a book of anecdotes. Each lasts a couple of pages or so and is just enough to convey some important principle. They range from the trite to the inspirational, the mundane to the spiritual. Along the way he gives us his thoughts on grandfathers, God, children, giraffes, and just about everything you need to know. Some of his stories are about the man next door, others about famous people. Some are real, others made up, but they all convey universal truths. When you read this book you will probably think 'Hey I knew that already!' But all the same it's heart warming to have someone tell you in such a homely, friendly style. By the end of the book I felt I knew Robert Fulghum and would be happy to invite him to tea with me any time he happened to be passing. I read this on recommendation and in turn will be recommending it to anyone who will listen.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful book from an American Hero
Comment: Fulghum's outlook on life is refreshing. He finds simple pleasures in everyday life that many people are missing. The core of his book(s) revolves around treating ourselves and others with kindness, exploring everything with wonder our Surroundings, and giving each other that special kind of boost that says I know your their and I'm glad. If you're looking for deep thought and didn't find it here I challenge you to reread it. I would go so far to say that he is the Tao Tzu of out times. In a world so filled with hatred and actions designed to break others down Fulghum has written a book that can bring the kind, wonderous child in all of us out. I cannot recommend it more.
finally, Yes I always buy lemonaid from kids on the street corner even if I have to circle the block. It's worth the smiles :)
Rating: 5
Summary: A MUST read for fans of the original & all others!
Comment: ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
by Robert Fulghum is one of my all-time favorite books . . . it is a
collection of essays that reflect the author's thoughts on life, death
and a whole lot of other subjects in-between.
So when I saw the 15th Anniversary Edition of the above, I naturally had to get hold of and then devour it . . . and
am glad I did . . . it's GREAT!
It is also quite different . . . or as the subtitle indicates, it is
"reconsidered, revised, and expanded with 25 new essays."
I liked all the new entries, but also got a kick out of revisiting
the old ones . . . it was like being with friends I haven't seen before.
Fulghum is that kind of author . . . once you read him, you'll
want to get everything else he has written: IT WAS ON FIRE
WHEN I LAY DOWN ON IT, UH-OH and MAYBE (MAYBE
NOT) . . . you won't be disappointed in any of these, nor with
his latest work either.
There were several memorable passages in the 15th Edition that
I had not come across before; among them:
* "And so then what happened?"
An urgent question out of the bedtime darkness, asked by my children,
when they and I were young. Just when I thought I had slam-dunked
a story-ending-just when I was certain the children were safely in the
arms of the sandman--a small, sleepy voice would plead, "So, then
what happened?" And no matter what I replied, the plea went on, "Please,
please, Daddy--tell the rest of the story."
In cranky desperation, I would resort to apocalypse: "Suddenly a
comet hit the earth and blew everything to pieces."
Silence. "What happened to the pieces?"
"It doesn't matter. Everybody died a horrible death, especially
all the little children who were not asleep." I also tried, "The father
sold all the children who would not go to sleep to a passing gypsy
who ground them into sausage meat. The first children to be ground
up were those who would not stop asking questions."
Go ahead, shame me. But it worked. Most of the time. On reflection,
I suspect such gory endings were what they really liked most. Perhaps
it was a scheme to see just how far I would go--to see how crazed
their father really was.
Now I am dealing with grandchildren who have the same restless
minds. I am wilier now than I used to be. To the inevitable request
for more, I reply, "Only your father knows the rest of the story. Ask
him to finish it when you get home."
* Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret
weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a
crisis developed, we would launch one first--before we tried
anything else. It would explode high in the air--explode softly--and
send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down
to earth--boxes of Crayolas. And we shouldn't go cheap either--not little
boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in.
With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber
and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little
funny look on their faces and cover the word with imagination instead
of death. A child who touched one wouldn't have his hand blown off.
* I recall an old Sufi story of a good man who was granted one
wish by God. The man said he would like to go about doing good
without knowing about it. God granted his wish. And then God
decided that it was such a good idea, he would grant that wish to
all human beings.
And so it has been to this day.
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Title: It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It by Robert Fulghum ISBN: 0804105820 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door by Robert Fulghum ISBN: 0804111898 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: True Love: Stories by Robert Fulghum ISBN: 0061096164 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing That Inspired My Ideas by Robert Fulghum ISBN: 0060932228 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Maybe by Robert Fulghum ISBN: 0804111154 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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