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Monday, June 13, 2011

Children's Author Spotlight: Sandra Boynton

If number of books by the same author is the benchmark, then Sandra Boynton is clearly the favourite author around here. She's a prolific writer of children's stories. Her subjects are adorable and silly animals such as pigs, cows, turkeys, cats, dogs, and her flagship hippos. There may also be the occasional monsters or dinosaur.

If you want a taste of Boynton's sense of humour, just visit the sandraboynton.com home and introduction pages. The silly doesn't stop at the text of the story itself. It's all the little details that make the difference in Boynton's work.

Often the stories are accompanied by, or may even have been born out of, a silly song.

To view the full Spotlight on Sandra Boynton, please visit Cookie's Book Club.

7 comments:

  1. That is one of the things I miss about my daughter being younger, reading books with her. Now we read together, but separate books (she's nearly 16), but it's still nice.

    I'm following from voiceBoks on my way to your book club!

    Stacey@ www.justsayitoldyouso.com

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  2. I am following back from voiceBoks! Love your photo header! We love the beach too. Thanks for the follow!

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  3. Thanks for visiting ladies! I love reading with my little guy and these books are so fun. He's almost outgrown them now (sniff), but that just means we move on to other great books!

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  4. Love Sandra Boynton! My girls can "read" quite a few of these from memory...very cute!

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  5. Hi Sadie, my son used to do the same thing (as did his dad and I - I used to know The Belly Button Book by heart).

    Melissa, I'll check out your blog hop one of these Wednesdays. Thanks for visiting!

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  6. I guess ours would have to be Robert Munsch cuz my boys just love his stories. They always laugh out loud when we read them.

    Thanks for stopping by my blog for the hop. I'm returning the follow. Hope you're having a great week so far.

    Nancy

    http://thatsoundslikecrazy.blogspot.com

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  7. Nancy, we have quite of few of Munsch's books as well! He's very silly too!

    Hope you are having a great weekend too! Thanks for visiting.

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