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People are always saying nice things about it. Maybe you should sign up and try it yourself My wife and I each come from big families. A few years back, when my daughter was about 2, we were visiting family in New Hampshire. This was what I think of now as prime Going to Bed Book era now.
We probably read that book, written by Sandra Boynton in to our daughter times over the course of a year or soβan easy regular in our multiple book bedtime rotation. I'll quit here so I don't get into copyright trouble full text , but everyone around the table joined in: my wife, me, Grandma, my wife's sister who is our age but whose kids are now grown up.
I think a few others, too. The book is only words long, but still. Some of us had read it the night before; others had last read it years ago. I'll bet there at least a few readers of today's newsletter who can pick it up without reading and rattle off the whole thing. Yet, I hadn't quite understood the totality of her success: 70 million books sold over the last 40 years.
Boynton lives in the foothills of the Berkshires, near her children and two doted-upon grandchildren. Her husband, the writer and Olympic medal-winning canoeist Jamie McEwan, died in of cancer. As a writer: that combination of a widespread devotion, b financial success, and c the ability to work and live in whatever is your equivalent of a converted barn in in the country with a vintage Wurlitzerβ that's basically the dream.
