SANDRA BOYNTON

Updated 04-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about SANDRA BOYNTON!

Kids’ Favorite Sandra Boynton Makes Music Video: Illustrator, kids’ book author and songwriter Sandra Boynton can add filmmaker to her resume. She has turned her song One Shoe Blues into a music video starring B.B. King and an ensemble of colorful sock puppets. Boynton tells NPR she makes no distinction between kids and adults who will enjoy her work.

Talking to the Animals, and Drawing Them, Too: Sandra Boynton, an author, illustrator, songwriter, music producer and entrepreneur, gives a tour of her workspace in a restored barn in Connecticut.

The Power of Whimsy: By one rough estimate, Sandra Boynton has sold around a half-billion cards, which may make her one of the best-selling card creators of all time.

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Sandra Keith Boynton is an american humorist, songwriter, director, music producer, children’s author and illustrator . she has written and illustrated more than fifty books for both children and adults . her father was a noted progressive Boynton is central to her own “upbeat offbeat” sensibility Germantown Friends’ arts-centered curriculum . she went on to Yale, entering in 1970 in the college’s second year of coeducation . boynton has described herself as “an enthusiastic but undistinguished alto” at her graduation from Yale in 1974, she received a Special Master’s Magna . unbeknownst to the graduation audience, the boynton intended to become a theater director . she postponed indefinitely a career in the theater, judging the demands of that profession not easily compatible with raising a family . nearly 500 million copies of Boynton’s humorous cards sold between 1973 and 2003 . the best known is a 1975 birthday card bearing images of four animals and the message “Hippo Birdie Two Ewes” the card has Boynton’s books are typically for very young children, offered in laminated paperboard format known as board books . nearly all of her books have been published by either Workman Publishing or Simon & Schuster . Moo, in 2005 and again in November 2007, she presented songs from Philadelphia Chickens, Dog Train, and Blue Moo . in November 2006, she directed her son Keith in his own play, The Quotable Assassin . the tracks were the first three albums of these albums have been certified gold by the RIAA . in 2010, Boynton produced and released a full-length 300-kazoo plus orchestra performance of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro . she directed “Penguin Lament” starring John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting . “Philadelphia Chickens” is mostly animation and includes cameos by Kevin Bacon and Michael Bacon . she in 1991, boynton and McEwan moved with their children to the Hautes-Pyrénées region of France . they moved in 1991 to the region so that Mcewan and his doubles partner could train with Darcy Boynton has appeared on numerous national television, newspaper and radio programs . she works in a reconstructed 120-year-old barn on her property in rural Connecticut .