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It Was on Fire When I Lay down on It

It Was on Fire When I Lay down on It

It Was on Fire When I Lay down on It Mass market paperback - 1991

by Robert Fulghum

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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. Villard.

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Random House Publishing Group, 1991. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title It Was on Fire When I Lay down on It
  • Author Robert Fulghum
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition, I
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Publishing Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1991
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0804105820I3N00
  • ISBN 9780804105828 / 0804105820
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.86 x 4.22 x 0.61 in (17.42 x 10.72 x 1.55 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Category Inspirational
  • Library of Congress subjects Life
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 89040193
  • Dewey Decimal Code 814.54
  • Quantity available 1

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Summary

In his first phenomenal best-seller, EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, Robert Fulghum reminded readers everywhere of some plain and still-true truths. Now, picking up where he left off, Fulghum turns our eyes to show-and-tell, weddings, his own ten commandments, and more insightful and unique observations on what our world is and was....From the Paperback edition.

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From the publisher

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.

From the jacket flap

In his first phenomenal best-seller, EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, Robert Fulghum reminded readers everywhere of some plain and still-true truths. Now, picking up where he left off, Fulghum turns our eyes to show-and-tell, weddings, his own ten commandments, and more insightful and unique observations on what our world is and was....

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 02/22/1991, Page 0

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 Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas. He has also written two novels: Third Wish and If You Love Me Still, Will You Love Me Moving?

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