Sandra Boyton is one of my favorite children’s authors. (mostly for toddlers) She’s been around for ever, having written some of her books way back in the 70’s, and all her books are funny, quick, clever.

One of my favorites, (It’s hard to pick just one), is Barnyard Dance. It is tied for first place in all time best selling Boyton books with Moo, Baa, La La LA.... another favorite of K's.

Snuggle Puppy is pretty good too.



She’s got music and toys and a great sense of humor:

I choose the projects I do and products I design somewhat at whim, and only if there’s a company that looks interesting to work with. I only “license” what I can develop and design myself, rather than letting companies adapt my characters according to their own sense and sensibilty. I have no agent, no business manager, no contracts attorney. This is a rather haphazard way to do things, but it’s more fun than an actual plan. Since I’m not sufficiently committed to Optimizing Market Potential, I seem to be a bewilderment and, one hopes, a minor annoyance to many.

You can buy the books anywhere, except usually thrift stores. I’ve suspect once you get one in your home, you never give it up. They just wear out from multiple readings.

We've got a gazillion of them. You can't buy just one.


An on an interesting note, she’s done just a few greeting cards too:

Over the past thirty-odd, odd years, I have designed, by varying estimates (none of them in fact mine because I’ve not yet gotten sufficiently motivated to start counting) somewhere between 4,000 and 6,000 greeting cards. Almost all were published by Recycled Paper, 1975 to 1996. They sold 50 to 80 million Boynton cards per year in the peak years (1980’s). Probably my best known card is a birthday card, “Hippo Birdie Two Ewes,” first printed in 1975, pretty much continuously in print since then, redrawn 5 times, 10 million copies sold. In 2003, I started doing a few card designs again, for the sake of auld lang syne.

Got toddlers? Buy Boyton.