Itty-Bitty

UH-OH

by Robert Fulghum

Villard; 244 pages; $19

"Hey, honey, do we really need any more philosophical tofu?" (Henry Featherless and his wife Glenda are browsing in the Just Barely Books store at the shopping mall. He flips through a demure volume she has chosen, suppresses a snicker and gives her the business.) "Says here on the dust jacket, Itty- Bitty Insights, Part 3."

"It does not. And a few insights of any size wouldn't crowd your psyche at all. Lots of room in there."

"Yeah, well I'm not going to be read to at the breakfast table from a book...

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