She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children’s music. More than 70 million of her books have been sold, “mostly to friends and family,” she says. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over sixty children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director.
(Ages 3 to 7) -Emilie Coulter About the Author:
Boynton's familiar style can be seen in scads of other delightfully nonsensical titles, including Barnyard Dance! and Moo, Baa, La La La!. The sturdy board book will withstand lots of eager counting fingers, and maybe even a berserk hippo or two. Lively, cute new illustrations complement this edition, with big numbers (one through nine, and nine through one) boldly placed on the corner of each page. The well-loved Sandra Boynton wrote this tribute to silliness in 1977, inspiring generations of the very young to learn to count. In clusters of nine, eight, seven, six, and so on, the hippos depart, finally leaving the one hippo "alone once more, the other forty-four." Before the night is through, a houseful of hippos (and one beast) has joined the one hippo for a boisterous bash. Soon three more hippos are at the door, bringing along another four. until the one calls two other hippos on the phone. Her Connecticut studio is in a converted barn that has perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America.How dull, to be one hippo all alone. Boynton has four perfect children and an equally perfect granddaughter. In 2008, Boynton received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Cartoonists Society. Jackson, which won the 2018 Grand Prize for Best Children’s Animation Short from the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Boynton has also written and directed eleven short musical films and two animated shorts, including “Tyrannosaurus Funk,” sung by Samuel L. Boynton has also written and produced six albums of unconventional children’s music three of her albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold), and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has gone Platinum (over one million copies sold). More than 70 million of her books have been sold-“mostly to friends and family,” she says.
Boynton has written and illustrated sixty children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. Sandra Boynton is a beloved American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, and highly sporadic short film director.
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