Synopsis
With 354,000 copies in print, Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me is the really successful book of sandbox wisdom. Now it is reissued with three fresh, appealing covers.
Collected and edited by Cynthia L. Copeland, author of The Diaper Diaries and Fun on the Run, together with 170,000 copies in print, Really Important Stuff is filled with clear-eyed common sense that can make us start with surprise and delight. Here are children saying things that are smart, funny, innocent, completely sensible in a way adults just aren’t. Things like: “Bees shouldn’t be so nice and fuzzy.” “You can either keep pedaling, get off the bike, or fall over.” “Pants with pockets are better.” Things like: “It’s more fun to color outside the lines.” “Lick your ice-cream cone before it gets a chance to melt.” “You’re only little until someone littler comes along.” And, “Milk tastes better through a straw.”
Collected and edited by Cynthia L. Copeland, author of The Diaper Diaries and Fun on the Run, together with 170,000 copies in print, Really Important Stuff is filled with clear-eyed common sense that can make us start with surprise and delight. Here are children saying things that are smart, funny, innocent, completely sensible in a way adults just aren’t. Things like: “Bees shouldn’t be so nice and fuzzy.” “You can either keep pedaling, get off the bike, or fall over.” “Pants with pockets are better.” Things like: “It’s more fun to color outside the lines.” “Lick your ice-cream cone before it gets a chance to melt.” “You’re only little until someone littler comes along.” And, “Milk tastes better through a straw.”
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About the Author
Cynthia Copeland is the author of the instant bestseller Really Important Stuff My Dog Has Taught Me and more than 25 other books, including The Diaper Diaries. Her books have sold more than a million copies and have been featured on Good Morning America, selected for Oprah’s “O List” in O Magazine, recommended by Ann Landers, and featured in Family Circle. Ms. Copeland lives in Keene, New Hampshire.
From the Back Cover
WISDOM OF THE SANDBOX
Little barefoot philosophers, kids see the world straight on, without a lot of fuss or complications. Sample from the hundreds of lessons in this mind-refreshing boo, and rediscover the joy of keeping it simple.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg" unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you.
Kids aren't supposed to have clean fingernails.
You have to love your brother, even if he doesn't deserve it.
Apologize for it before your mother notices the stain on your shirt.
Stamp your feet when you get angry.
You only go down the slide headfirst one time.
If you want to get carried, pretend to fall asleep in the back seat of the car.
If somebody calls you a crybaby, don't cry.
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