The illustrations are colorful enough to grab his attention, but simple enough that he can point out different animals and the different parts of the animals.
Like all Boynton books, it’s rhythmic so my son enjoys the narrative, and he can participate in the reading by supplying the animal sounds as we go. “A cow says moo, a sheep says baa” until you get to the surprising line “three singing pigs say la la la.” Hilarity ensues. However, this Boynton book stands out enough from the already-exalted pack that I think it’s worth a review.īasically it’s a poem of animals and the sounds they make. Her Connecticut studio is in a converted barn that has perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America.It’s a Sandra Boynton book, so it’s almost not worth reviewing. 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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