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Yeeeee-hah! Boynton country music!
And whoa, Nelly, look who-all is performing!
I've Got a Dog - Dwight Yoakam
Trucks - Fountains of Wayne
Frog Trouble- Mark Lanegan
Heartache Song - Kacey Musgraves
When Pigs Fly - Ryan Adams
Broken Piano - Ben Folds
Copycat - Brad Paisley
End of a Summer Storm - Alison Krauss
Alligator Stroll - Josh Turner
Beautiful Baby - Darius Rucker
Deepest Blue - Linda Eder
More Frog Trouble - Falls Mountain Cowboys
Includes a Boynton-illustrated songbook with full-length music CD, and 12 songs with a whole lot of gumption and heart!
* Album produced by Sandra Boynton & Michael Ford
* Lyrics by Sandra Boynton
* Music by Boynton & Ford
* Boynton & Ford have written and produced three Gold Records
Author Notes
Sandra Boynton was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Boynton's parents became Quakers when she was two years old. From kindergarten through 12th grade, she and her sisters attended Germantown Friends School, where their father taught English and was Head of the Upper School. She went on to Yale, entering in 1970 for her second year of college. She spent the second semester of her junior year studying in Paris through Wesleyan University's program. At Yale, she majored in English. Boynton intended to become a theater director. For graduate studies in drama, she attended the University of California at Berkeley for one year, then transferred to the Yale School of Drama D.F.A. program, but she did not complete the program. With the birth of her first child in 1979, Boynton postponed indefinitely a career in the theater. Boynton began designing greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings. Her designs were at the forefront of the Alternative Cards commercial movement that began in the mid-1970s. According to RPG co-founder and president Mike Keiser, over 200 million copies of Boynton's distinctive humorous cards featuring an assortment of unnamed cartoon animal characters, spare layout, and droll messages sold between 1973 and 1995. Since the 1977 release of Hippos Go Berserk!, Boynton has published many children's books, as well as several illustrated humor books for the general market. Her books are most typically for very young children, offered in the laminated paperboard format known as board books. Five of her books have been New York Times best sellers: Chocolate: The Consuming Passion; Frog Trouble and Eleven Other Pretty Serious Songs; Yay, You!; Consider Love; and Philadelphia Chickens, which reached the number one position on the list, and was on the list for nearly a year. Two of her books are Publisher's Weekly bestsellers, Dinosaur Dance!, and Eek! Halloween!. Three of Boynton's books are on the Publishers Weekly All-Time Bestselling Children's Books list. More than 30 million copies of her books have been sold.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 5-With a diverse cast of Country Western talent, this collaboration displays the considerable humor and artistry of the children's author, illustrator, and songwriter. Each of the 12 songs is introduced with a full-page illustration and text in Part 1, "Look While You Listen," and is found again with complete musical notation, chords, and lyrics in Part 2, "Sing and Play Along." Fonts change with a page turn. Readers will learn how to "Talk Like a Cowboy" and find a helpful list to choose the right name for dogs, horses, 'gators, and frogs. Kid-friendly, fantastic art fills the pages-pigs drive trucks and fly, frogs (with and without their cowboy hats) peek from their hiding places, critters play their instruments, and a barnyard quintet sings along. "Meet the Performers," Part 3, briefly introduces each artist for the CD with photos, recording credits, and "thank-y'alls." The (more than 33 minutes) CD includes a diversity of tempo and instrumental accompaniment: folk instruments, sound effects, virtuoso guitar, fiddle, or harmonica riffs, orchestral strings, country blues, honky-tonk piano, slow rock-and-roll. In short, everything from a rockin' line dance to a poignant tribute at the end of a summer storm is included. If the CD and eye-catching illustrations are not enough, final pages of the book include instructions and a paper design to cut out and fold into a frog puppet. Humorously entertaining for "age 1 to older than dirt," this is a must-buy for young readers and Country Western fans in all libraries.-Mary Elam, Learning Media Services, Plano ISD, TX (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
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 songs at school and watching westerns on TV at home. With longtime songwriting and producing partner Mike Ford and top-notch musicians, including Alison Krauss, Ryan Adams, Dwight Yoakam, and Fountains of Wayne, Boynton presents 12 tunes with some familiar country themes (trucks, dogs, heartache) as seen through a child's or parent's eyes. In the book's "Look While You Listen" section, select lyrics appear with Boynton's signature animal characters. Spot illustrations dot the "Sing and Play Along" pages, which include full lyrics and musical notation. The eponymous "Frog Trouble" is a simultaneously ominous and hilarious send-up of spaghetti western soundtracks, while Brad Paisley's band mimics his lyrics in "Copycat," resulting in some funny musical moments: "Stop it. (Stop it!) No, seriously. (No, seriously)." In the humorously mournful "Heartache Song," Kacey Musgraves channels Patsy Cline as she croons, "Don't they remember-/ all the heartache so deep/ when somebody tells you/ it's time now for sleep." And Ben Folds is pure honky-tonk as he insists, "Some might say the piano is broken,/ but it seems to play for me." Boynton's spot-on humor and the performers' talents ensure an entertaining family outing, while demonstrating just how diverse country can be. Brief profiles of the performers, humorous interstitials about good pet names and how to talk like a cowboy, and a frog-puppet craft round out the fun. Ages 2-up. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
For listeners of all ages, Boynton and Michael Ford's latest CD/songbook combination presents 12 new songs in a country-western mode. In this grand collection for children and their caregivers, the producers of Philadelphia Chickens (2002) sample styles beyond country music: cowboy, bluegrass and blues, honkytonk and hillbilly rock. The book has three sections: lyrics (or at least the first verse or two), written by Boynton and illustrated with her cartoons; musical notation (melody and chords) and complete words; and performers' biographies. On the CD, the all-star collection of musicians includes names familiar to fans of the genre. They put these songs over convincingly, although it's hard to imagine there weren't some giggles along the way. The tunes, some written in collaboration with keyboardist Ford, are catchy and appealing, the arrangements simple enough to understand the words and the lyrics, which are appropriate for young children. There's heartbreak, as a bunny bewails how "[t]hey make me clean up my room"; a small boy's delight in "Trucks"; the dreamy "When Pigs Fly"; and two different versions of the titular "Frog Trouble." The background percussion for "I've Got a Dog" includes The Scotty Brothers playing spoons. "Alligator Stroll" is followed by instructions and diagrams for simple dance steps. Backmatter includes instructions for making a folded-paper frog puppet. This is children's music grown-ups won't mind hearing over and over, no trouble at all. (Songbook/CD. 3 up)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Combining Boynton's lyrics and music with the voices and instruments of today's top country musicians results in a heck of a fun half hour of country music at its best. Now, these aren't your typical chart-topping tunes about unrequited love, but rather entertaining songs about frogs, dogs, trucks, and more. Fitting the style of country music, each song tells a story some sad, some funny, and some just sweet. The simple lines and muted colors of Boynton's clean, uncluttered illustrations further expand the tone of the songs. The book is divided into three parts: Look While You Listen, Sing and Play Along, and Meet the Performers. In the first are the lyrics and art; in the second are the lyrics and the music (just the melody); and in the third are photos of the singers, bands, and instrumentalists, followed by recording credits, book credits, and lastly, instructions for making a folding frog puppet. Naturally, this comes with a CD. Get some scratch guard, because it'll be played a lot.--Petty, J. B. Copyright 2010 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
Music is the food of love for Herman, a crocodile who plays oboe, and his neighbor Rosie, a doe who sings jazz at the Mangy Hound. The two lead parallel lives, enjoying bits of each other's music as it wafts through the night air until at last they meet on a Manhattan rooftop. Gordon, an Australian, sets his charmingly illustrated story in the present day, adding texture and history with old maps and newspaper clippings. FROG TROUBLE Deluxe Songbook. Written and illustrated by Sandra Boynton. 68 pp. Workman. $16.95. (Picture book and CD; ages 3 to 8) You might have been so distracted by Boynton's prolific literary production that you missed her musical endeavors, which include an album of plainchant and polyphony in Latin and pig Latin. In "Frog Trouble," she illustrates 12 witty children's country songs with pictures of the adorably smiley animals who ostensibly sing them. The real singers, who can be heard on the accompanying CD, include Alison Krauss, Dwight Yoakam and Fountains of Wayne. NEVER PLAY MUSIC RIGHT NEXT TO THE ZOO By John Lithgow. Illustrated by Leeza Hernandez. 40 pp. Simon & Schuster. $17.99. (Picture book and CD; ages 3 to 8) It's not every day that you see an elegant gray-haired lady fending off an encroaching bear with her flute. But in Lithgow's zany and toe-tapping song, illustrated with comic abandon by Hernandez, all sorts of unexpected things happen when a boy and his family attend an outdoor concert at a city zoo. Though the boy nods off, the animals are so excited by what they hear they storm the stage and take over the instruments. WHY DO I SING? Animal Songs of the Pacific Northwest. By Jennifer Blomgren. Illustrated by Andrea Gabriel. 32 pp. Sasquatch. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 3 to 8) Humans aren't the only creatures with the urge to sing. Blomgren describes the wild songs of marmots, fin whales, meadowlarks, loons and others, imagining what might compel them. Of the starfish, she writes delicately: "They just might be singing a song we can't know. / We don't see or hear the world the same way / As so many living things near us each day." Gabriel's big, rough-textured watercolors give a good sense of the particular beauty of the region. WHEN THE BEAT WAS BORN: DJ Kool Here and the Creation of Hip Hop. By Laban Carrick Hill. Illustrated by Theodore Taylor III. 32 pp. Roaring Brook. $17.99. (Picture book; ages 6 to 9) "Hip hip hop. Hippity hop." Clive first hears that rhythm booming from a neighbor's house in Jamaica, and when he moves to New York City at the age of 13, he takes the sound with him. Known as Hercules because of his height, Clive begins D. J.-ing in the Bronx after his father brings home a set of six-foot speakers. Hill tells the story of the birth of hip-hop with his own catchy rhythm, and Taylor's illustrations bring out the enthusiasm and sense of community at the heart of this trend-setting sound. ONLINE A slide show of this week's illustrated books at nytimes.com/books.