Sandra Boynton, GOOD NIGHT, GOODNIGHT: The original longer version of The Going to Bed Book
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by humorist, author, and musician Sandra Boynton to talk about her bestselling book, Good Night, Good Night, which was recently expanded and re-released. The two discuss Sandra's extensive and illustrious career, from her start selling greeting cards while still in college to her work creating stories and music for children (which she says has never been intended solely for kids). Sandra also tells Zibby about her work ethic and why the best gifts she ever received have been her education and her family.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 0:35.0 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:40.1 | Sandra Boynton is the author of Good Night, Good Night. Sandra is a beloved American cartoonist, children's author, songwriter, |
| 0:45.6 | and highly sporadic short film writer-director, starting with the 1977 publication of Hippos Go |
| 0:51.1 | Berserk. Boynton has written and illustrated 70 children's books and |
| 0:55.5 | seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. Her renowned books |
| 1:00.4 | include The Going to Bed Book, Barnyard Dance, Snuggle Puppy, Belly Button Book, Doggies, |
| 1:07.8 | Spooky, Pookie, Jungle Night, and, but not the hippopotamus. And for grown-ups, |
| 1:13.0 | chocolate, the consuming passion. More than 70 million, 70 million of her books have been sold, |
| 1:18.7 | quote, mostly to friends and family, she says. Boynton has also written and produced six albums |
| 1:23.6 | of unconventional children's music, which includes performances by Brian Wilson, Brad |
| 1:27.8 | Paisley, Kevin Klein, Casey Moose Graves, Blues Traveler, Allison Krause, Merrill Streep, Spin Doctors, Davy Jones, Dwight Yocum, Patty L. Pateone, Neil Sedaka, and Weirdell Yankevich, 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 |
| 1:45.0 | a Grammy, has gone platinum with over a million copies sold. Boynton has also written and directed |
| 1:49.6 | 12 short musical films, including One Shoes Blues, starring BB King and two animated shorts |
| 1:54.9 | When Pigs Fly, sung by Ryan Adams and Tyrannosaurus Funk, sung by Samuel Jackson, which won the |
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