It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
  • Published:
    Oct-1992 (Hardcover)
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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.
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    • First Edition
    • Oct-1992
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0517091720
    • ISBN13: 9780517091722
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    • Apr-2010
    • Ivy
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307755010
    • ISBN13: 9780307755018



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