Sandra Boynton

Background

Sandra Keith Boynton is a successful author, illustrator, songwriter, music producer, and humorist. She is an Aries, born on April 3, 1953, in Orange, New Jersey. She was raised in Mount Airy, Philadelphia. She is the third of four daughters born to Jeanne and Robert Boynton, who was a progressive educator, scholar, publisher, and co-founder of Boynton/Cook Publishers.

Boyton’s career features greeting cards and books she wrote and designed. It also features productions in theater and music. Boynton’s distinctive humorous cards for Recycled Paper Greetings were at the frontier of the Alternative Cards movement of the mid-‘70s. Almost 500 million copies of these cards were sold between 1973 and 2003. In 1977, Boynton released the children’s book “Hippos Go Berserk!” Since then, the author has released over 70 children’s books, including “Moo, Baa, La La La!”(1982), which made the All-Time Bestselling Children’s Books list. In addition to this, Boynton has also released multiple general market books, and her books have sold over 60 million copies. Boynton began writing songs in 1996 and received a Grammy nomination in 2003 for ‘Philadelphia Chickens.’ Some of her albums have been certified gold by the R.I.A.A. The author has also produced several theatrical plays, including “The Quotable Assassin” (2006), an off-off-Broadway play written by her son.

Boynton married an Olympic Bronze medalist and Yale graduate Jamie McEwan from 1978 until he died in 2014. They had four children before his passing. Boynton shares her success with her children, friends, and family.