1. Sandra Keith Boynton was born on April 3,1953 and is an American humorist, songwriter, director, music producer, children's author, and illustrator.
20 Facts About Sandra Boynton
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Sandra Boynton has designed calendars, wallpaper, bedding, stationery, paper goods, clothing, jewelry, and plush toys for various companies.
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The third of the four daughters of Jeanne and Robert W Boynton, Sandra was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia.
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Sandra Boynton's parents became Quakers when she was two years old.
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Sandra Boynton has frequently cited Germantown Friends' arts-centered curriculum as central to her own "upbeat offbeat" sensibility as well as its thorough integration of the values of pacifism, independent inquiry, and individualism.
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Sandra Boynton spent part of her 10th grade year at Ackworth School near Pontefract, England.
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Sandra Boynton studied Latin for five years in high school, mostly in order to avoid science classes, the scheduling of which invariably conflicted with Latin.
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Sandra Boynton went to Yale University, entering in 1970 in the college's second year of coeducation.
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Sandra Boynton spent the second semester of her junior year studying in Paris through Wesleyan University's program.
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Sandra Boynton had joined the Glee Club when additional singers were needed for a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall, under the direction of Leopold Stokowski.
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Sandra Boynton has described herself as "an enthusiastic but undistinguished alto".
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Sandra Boynton's greeting card designs for Recycled Paper Greetings were at the forefront of the Alternative Cards commercial movement that began in the mid-1970s.
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Sandra Boynton's books are most typically for very young children, offered in the laminated paperboard format known as board books.
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In November 2010, Sandra Boynton produced and released a full-length 300-kazoo plus orchestra performance of Maurice Ravel's Bolero, titled Bolero Completely Unraveled, performed by the Highly Irritating Orchestra.
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Sandra Boynton has written the text for four choral pieces composed by Fenno Heath, Director Emeritus of the Yale Glee Club, all of which have been performed by the Yale Alumni Chorus on international tour.
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Sandra Boynton is currently working on a Christmas album entitled Cows and Holly with producer Mike Ford, due for release in September 2024.
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In 2008, Sandra Boynton ventured into filmmaking, creating and directing music videos of her most popular recorded songs.
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Sandra Boynton is the 2008 recipient of the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Cartoonists Society's highest honor.
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Sandra Boynton was married to writer and Olympic Bronze medalist Jamie McEwan from 1978 until his death from cancer in 2014.
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Sandra Boynton has appeared on numerous national television, newspaper and radio programs.