All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

This blockbuster audio title of 15 years ago appears again with new material. Whether familiar with the original or not, listeners will find this update entertaining, inspirational, and simply wonderful to hear. The gentle 66-year-old author is secure and spontaneous in his insights. He reads with a youthful but well-tempered enthusiasm that overflows with his genuine interest in what people hear and how they're helped by his thoughts. Many listeners will have to slow down their listening pace to appreciate the complexity and subtlety of Fulghum's insights. But doing so will be rewarded because the message and substance herein reach into the deepest places of the heart. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

September 1, 1988
To criticize these random jottings, some of which have appeared in ``Dear Abby'' columns and Reader's Digest , is perhaps akin to suggesting that the American flag be used as a rag in a carwash. Fulghum, a retired Unitarian minister, does not express uncommon thoughts here: his thoughts are those we all wish were true. The book's tone is set by the title piece, in which the author sets out his credo, ranging from ``share everything'' to ``hold hands and stick together.'' He goes on to relate stories of a courageous and loving Russian soldier and Mother Teresa. Fulghum approaches each topic here with lump-in-the-throat sentimentality, which is sure to feed the public's perceived hunger for happy talk. First serial to Redbook; BOMC featured selection.