Sandra Boynton, Random/Corey, $5.99 (18p) ISBN 978-0-375-86539-8
In Little Pookie's fourth adventure, the cartoon pig is so excited for its birthday that it wakes its parents twice in one night. To celebrate Little Pookie's big day, Daddy makes pig-shaped pancakes, and after Little Pookie's nap (though it's the...
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Sandra Boynton. Little Simon, $5.99 (16p) ISBN 978-1-4424-1731-1
With her familiar brand of gentle absurdity, Boynton creates similes that ascribe moods to various animals. "Hello, Little Person!/ How are you today?" greets a concerned-looking bear. Part of the book's pleasure is that Boynton doesn't rely on...
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Sandra Boynton. Random/Corey, $5.99 (18p) ISBN 978-0-375-87175-7
Little Pookie's thin fifth outing feels like a belated introduction to the character, as his mother details 10 things about her beloved little one. "1. You like macaroni./ 2. You're suspicious of peas./ 3. You are happy outdoors with your ears in...
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Sandra Boynton, Author Little Brown and Company $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-10494-4
One of the silliest, most fun counting books around features ""One hippo, all alone, calls two hippos on the phone,'' until a gang of 45 hippos assembles for a party. (All ages)
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Sandra Boynton, Author Workman Publishing $5.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-89480-013-9
Boynton's greeting cards featuring cute, likable animals have been deservedly popular. Here she uses similar critters in a book that aims to spoof human ""turkeys,'' who are like nerds but are self-confident, she writes. Although her drawings...
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Sandra Boynton, Author Little Simon $8.99 (18p) ISBN 978-0-689-82568-2
'Tis the season to be silly, particularly when Boynton's at the helm. A tiny reindeer named Bob kicks off this set of seven merry poems (and, in fact, sneaks into the other six). The verse is cheery (""The turkey is loud. The donkey is, too./ The...
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Sandra Boynton. Workman, $16.95 (70p) ISBN 978-0-7611-7176-8
Boynton (Philadelphia Chickens) returns with a fifth vibrant CD-and-illustrated-songbook collaboration. This time, she embraces country music, inspired (as a note explains) by the soundtrack of her childhood, growing up in the 1950s, singing folk...
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Sandra Boynton, Author Workman Publishing $6.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-56305-444-0
The popular illustrator and greeting-card artist brings oddball humor and plenty of sassy energy to Boynton on Board, a quartet of concept board books. Each volume features a die-cut front cover framing a picture of its ebullient cartoon stars. A...
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Sandra Boynton, Workman, $15.95 (92p) ISBN 978-0-7611-6371-8; $10.95 paper ISBN 978-0-7611-6214-8
Not since the heyday of Gary Larson has so much adoration been shown to bovines. With her trademark irreverence, Boynton offers an impassioned and hyperbolic ode to cows,
replete with jokes, a spread devoted to cow fashion, a cow "myth" that takes...
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Sandra Boynton. Workman, $6.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7611-8060-9
Ten of Boynton’s characteristically excitable rabbits put on a Broadway-style song and dance for readers in a board book that bounces along like its stars. Ten cottontails sing, dance, hop, and even form a giant pyramid for a packed auditorium of...
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Sandra Boynton. Random/Corey, $5.99 (18p) ISBN 978-0-553-51233-5
Boynton’s Little Pookie is celebrating Halloween, and picking a costume is proving difficult. Lively rhymes list off the options Mom offers (“A clown would be funny./ A pumpkin is cute./ You would make a fine bunny/ in the white bunny suit”) as...
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Sandra Boynton, Author . S&S/Little Simon $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-84703-5
Arriving just in time for Valentine's Day gift giving, this bouncy volume should please the palates of those searching for a sweet confection for a special someone. An appealing menagerie of Boynton's inimitable animal characters court and...
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Sandra Boynton, Author, Michael Ford, Author, Michael Ford, Composer Workman Publishing $16.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7611-3323-0
Author-illustrator-composer Sandra Boynton bops into summer by putting a fresh coat of paint-literally-on her 1999 book-and-cassette package Rhinoceros Tap, a collaboration with Mike Ford and Adam Bryant. A redesigned edition of the book packaged...
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Sandra Boynton, Author, B. B. King, Performed by . Workman $10.95 (59p) ISBN 978-0-7611-5138-8
Adding a new dimension—video—to her children's media oeuvre, author-illustrator Boynton transforms a song from her 2007 book-and-CD title Blue Moo: 17 Jukebox Hits from Way Back Never
into a stand-alone book-plus-DVD, starring...
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Sandra Boynton, illus. by George Booth. Little Simon, $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5344-2964-2
Readers are let in on a secret in this story of a white dog that appears to spend much of his time perched on his knobby haunches and staring. When George’s family calls to him—“Here, George!”—George stays perfectly still: “George does not move.”...
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Sandra Boynton, Author, Sandra Boynton, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-80854-8
Happening hippos And for a merrier look at oversized animals, Sandra Boynton's Hippos Go Berserk!, first published in 1977, is reissued in a larger format with new colors. In this counting book, the phone call of one lonely hippo initiates a party: "
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Sandra Boynton. Little Simon, $5.99 (18p) ISBN 978-1-5344-3724-1
It’s Christmas Eve, and the eponymous porcine character is out the door as soon as snowflakes start to fall. Snowsuit-clad in festive colors, Pookie and Pookie’s mother walk in the snow until “our noses are frozen.” Next, the two make paper garlands,
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Sandra Boynton, Author, Sandra Boynton, Illustrator Little Simon $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-87814-5
A pair of books just right for a special someone arrive in time for Valentine's Day. Consider Love: Its Moods and Many Ways by Sandra Boynton, first published in 2002, appears here in a square, paper-over-board mini-edition. The hand-size volume...
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Sandra Boynton, Author, Sandra Boynton, Illustrator Little Simon $10.95 (14p) ISBN 978-0-689-82203-2
Boynton's (Snoozers) signature style showcases a restless baby dinosaur who can't go to bed without his (or her) security blanket in this charming large-trim board book. Her rhyming text cajoles the little creature to settle down: ""Dinosaur O...
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Sandra Boynton. Little Simon, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-6813-9
The pigs, chickens, cows, rhinos, and other animals familiar to Boynton’s many fans join forces to celebrate Christmas—loudly. “First comes the elephant marching along/ with a boom-biddy boom-biddy steady and strong,” writes the author as a serious-l
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Sandra Boynton, Author, Sandra Boynton, Illustrator Little Simon $12.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-689-86363-9
Sandra Boynton's personable animals teach youngsters about textures as they beg to be touched in Fuzzy Fuzzy Fuzzy! A Touch, Skritch & Tickle Book. From a cow with tufty blue hair and a velvety pink nose, to a pig with shiny green sunglasses and
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Like Dr. Seuss's Oh, the Places You'll Go!,
Boynton's latest picture book seems geared more for the graduation gift market than the children's bookshelf. She strikes up a chipper note from the start, offering introductory congratulations of an...
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Sandra Boynton, Author, Sandra Boynton, Illustrator Little Simon $16.95 (10p) ISBN 978-0-689-87683-7
Sandra Boynton fans will croon over the soft and squishy Moo Cow Book, a plush cow's head whose mouth opens wide to reveal a rhyme printed on six cuddly pages: ""I'm your very own cow/ and I like to go moo!/ When I lick you right now/ it means I...
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Sandra Boynton, Author, Michael Ford, Composer Workman $16.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7611-2636-2
Sandra Boynton, long heralded for her menagerie of animal characters (Moo, Baa, La La La; Rhinoceros Tap), puts a fresh cast of singing, dancing critters center stage-from the titular boogying chickens to a tail-wagging ""snuggle puppy""-in ...
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Sandra Boynton, Author, Michael Ford, Composer, Sandra Boynton, Illustrator Workman Publishing $17.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7611-3966-9
The creative team that so cleverly presented musical theater for kids with the star-studded recording Philadelphia Chickens is back - this time with a mostly rock-and-roll romp, and another stellar cast of musical talent. Blues Traveler, replete...
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Sandra Boynton, Author, Michael Ford, Author . Workman $16.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7611-4789-3
Author-illustrator-lyricist Boynton and her musical collaborator Ford (Philadelphia Chickens
) are back with another entertaining book-and-CD moosical. This time the inspiration is the shake-and-shimmy doo-wop and rock styles of 1950s and ’60s
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Sandra Boynton. S&S/Boynton, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-6659-3853-2
This title’s hippo protagonists are not the same wholehearted party animals Boynton portrayed more than 45 years ago in Hippos Go Berserk! But make no mistake: these hippos are living their best, totally centered lives. Now they’re inclined to read...
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Sandra Boynton. Boynton Bookworks, $6.99 (16p) ISBN 978-1-6659-7405-9
This buoyant banana-oriented board book from Boynton (Hippos Remain Calm) celebrates what every kid inherently knows: that bananas are delicious as well as supremely silly. This is especially true when the fruit is being feted by four monsters...
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