Sandra Keith Boynton (b.1953) is an American humorist, songwriter, director, music producer, children’s author, and illustrator. Her children’s books have sold more than 20 million copies.
Born to Quaker parents in Orange, New Jersey, Boynton majored in English at Yale. She became a designer of amusing greeting cards. Her most famous greeting card features a hippopotamus, a bird, and two sheep; “Hippo Birdie Two Ewes” has sold more than 10 million copies.
Boynton has written and illustrated more than fifty books for both children and adults. She has also designed office and home products. Her children’s books include Hippos Go Berserk (1977,) Chocolate: The Consuming Passion (1982,) Philadelphia Chickens (2002,) and Dinosaur Dance! (2016.)
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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.
—Sandra Boynton
Topics: Memory, Just for Fun
Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favor of dirt.
—Sandra Boynton
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