Cows and Holly

Written and illustrated by Sandra Boynton

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4 - 8

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Oct 15, 2024

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What's Cows and Holly About

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Oh joy! Cows and Holly is a sparkling new Sandra Boynton Christmas album for everyone everywhere–plus illustrated songbook! Zooey Deschanel, Lyle Lovett, Yo-Yo Ma, Patti LuPone, Raúl Esparza, Patrick Warburton, Fountains of Wayne’s Chris Collingwood, Linda Eder, Stuart Duncan, Viktor Krauss, and many others perform a wild variety of new new new Christmas songs, all with a Christmas classics feel to them. (Plus “Deck the Halls” with a barnyard twist…) Ranging from 60s surf rock to a cappella motet to Celtic jig to 50s Rat Pack crooner to Doo-wop to Broadway to folk/country and beyond, Cows and Holly takes you on a wild and wonderful ride through the many moods of Christmas, through the many styles and eras of its music. - A Boynton illustrated Christmas Songbook - A Boynton Holiday CD - With all songs available on most streaming platforms, for your holiday playlist Grammy(R)-nominated for her Platinum-certified Philadelphia Chickens, Boynton’s six previous picture-book-with-CD albums have two Gold records, one Platinum, and have sold over three million copies. Sales of Boynton’s beloved children’s and humor books are nearing 90 million copies. And she truly loves Christmas and its glorious music.

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Sandra Boynton

Sandra Boynton is a beloved American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, and highly sporadic short film director. Boynton has written and illustrated sixty children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. 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; three of her 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 and two animated shorts, including “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. Her Connecticut studio is in a converted barn that has perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America.