All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Name: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780345466396
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Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

By Robert Fulghum

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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum offers a collection of poignant essays reflecting on life’s fundamental truths found in everyday moments. Drawing on simple yet profound experiences—like a seed in a Styrofoam cup symbolising mortality, or a spider’s web teaching resilience—Fulghum explores themes of life, death, love, and joy. With added reflections in the latest edition, this enduring bestseller encourages readers to find wisdom in the smallest details and to approach life with courage and simplicity.
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Ideal for readers seeking thoughtful personal development and life reflections, this book appeals to those who appreciate heartfelt, accessible wisdom and timeless life lessons.

"Originally published in different form by Villard Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1988. A portion of this text appeared in the Kansas City Times."--T.p. verso.

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For anyone who loved the original edition of this perennial bestseller, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten makes a wonderful gift for a whole new generation of readers.

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

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Praised as "a healthy antidote to the horrors that pummel us in this dicey age" by the Baltimore Sun, the book resonates on both personal and national levels, according to the New York Daily News. The San Francisco Chronicle highlights its elegant simplicity, stating "within simplicity lies the sublime", while the Los Angeles Times describes it as "as universal as fresh air and invigorating as the fragrance of a Douglas fir."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780345466396

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 May 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 193g

Pages: 240

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Happiness & Mental Health Mindset & Self Help Motivation & Inspiration New Year, New You Non-Fiction Penguin Books Personal Development Philosophy & Psychology Robert Fulghum Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Robert Fulghum is a writer, philosopher, and public speaker, but he has also worked as a cowboy, a folksinger, an IBM salesman, a professional artist, a parish minister, a bartender, a teacher of drawing and painting, and a father. All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten has inspired numerous theater pieces that have captivated audiences across the country. Fulghum is also the author of many New York Times bestsellers, including It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, Uh-Oh, and Maybe (Maybe Not), as well as two plays- All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas. He lives in Seattle, Washington.