Collected by Cynthia L. Copeland, Really Important Stuff is filled with clear-eyed common sense that can make us start with surprise and delight. Now it is reconceived in a brand-new, full-colour, photograph-filled format that is both pared down to its essential best and augmented with quotations, stories, lists.

With over 400,000 copies in print, Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me is the really successful book of sandbox wisdom. Now it is reconceived in a brand-new, full-color, photograph-filled format that is both pared down to its essential best and augmented with quotations, stories, lists. Collected by Cynthia L. Copeland, author of The Diaper Diaries and Fun on the Run, together with 220,000 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't stop the sled halfway down the hill." "Pants with pockets are better.¿ "Don't blow out somebody else's birthday candles." "You're only little until someone littler comes along.¿ And, "Milk tastes better through a straw.¿