Woodland Dance! invites us to an enchanting, midnight gathering of woodland creatures as they heed the call of the fox’s bugle to dance in a moonlit glade. Boynton brings her signature illustrations and lyrical genius to this magical, go-to-bed flipside of the enormously successful Barnyard Dance! After dancing all night to the captivating music of the Woodland Dance Trio, the animal friends wander off to bed while the Trio plays one last piece to welcome the sunrise. Capturing the secret magic of the forest and sparking children’s interest in the natural world as they settle down for bed, Woodland Dance! is the perfect sleepy time tale! Woodland Dance! (Workman Publishing; On-sale: September 28, 2021; $7.95) You can find it here.
I loved this delightful picture book and recommend it for all young children!
More about the author:
Sandra Boynton is a beloved American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, and highly sporadic short film director. Starting with the 1977 publication of Hippos Go Berserk!, Boynton has written and illustrated over sixty children’s books and eight general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. Her renowned books include Barnyard Dance!, Snuggle Puppy!, Belly Button Book!, EEK! Halloween!, But Not the Hippopotamus, and The Going to Bed Book. More than 70 million of her books have been sold—“mostly to friends and family,” she says. Boynton has also written and produced six albums of unconventional children’s music, which include performances by Brian Wilson, Brad Paisley, Kevin Kline, Kacey Musgraves, Blues Traveler, Alison Krauss, Meryl Streep, Spin Doctors, Davy Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Patti LuPone, Neil Sedaka, and “Weird Al” Yankovic in a duet with Kate Winslet. Three of Boynton’s albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold), and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has gone Platinum (over one million copies sold). Boynton has also written and directed eleven short musical films, including “One Shoe Blues,” starring B. B. King; and two animated shorts: “When Pigs Fly,” sung by Ryan Adams, and “Tyrannosaurus Funk,” sung by Samuel L. Jackson, which won the 2018 Grand Prize for Best Children’s Animation Short from the Rhode Island International Film Festival. In 2008, Boynton received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Cartoonists Society.
Boynton has four perfect children, and an equally perfect granddaughter and grandson. She raised her family on a very old New England farm (it’s now a non-working farm, except for the hyperactive cartoon chickens and disaffected imaginary cows and such). Her studio there is in a converted barn that has perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America.
Credit: The cover image was provided and I received a free copy of the book to facilitate this post.
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