For Christmas, Santa gave Carrie Philadelphia Chickens and Dog Train. These are both excellent children’s albums (with great lyric books) by Sandra Boynton. My absolute favorite songs off the two albums are “I Need a Nap”, “Fifteen Animals”, “Belly Button”, and “Snuggle Puppy”. But there are so many others that are just so fantastic, it’s worth owning the albums. We also have several – well, probably more than a dozen now – of her board books, and they are all among Carrie’s favorites. (As in the ones she asks me to read to her over and over and over and over on a daily basis.)
And then, in a strange cosmic hiccup, I was browsing the $4 calendar sale at the mall this evening and found Mom’s Family Calendar, also a Sandra Boynton item. That in itself wasn’t so strange, until some random woman walking by as I was pondering whether I really needed a family calendar (since we already have one that’s perfectly functional, just not nearly as cute) started gushing over what a great calendar it was, and how it’s made her into a super-organized mom. OK. I’m sold!
So, I guess what I’m saying is, if you have a small child and need some great books and music for him or her, you really can’t go wrong with Sandra Boynton!