Product Review
Sandra Boynton has a knack for creating baby books with bounce. Her Barnyard Dance! Is a true romp of a board book, with cartoon farm animals that are wacky enough to make you laugh out loud, and rhymes clever enough to sustain those nearly infinite re-readings: "Stand with the donkey /Slide with the sheep / Scramble with the little chicks - cheep cheep cheep!"
The popular illustrator and greeting-card artist brings oddball humor and plenty of sassy energy to Boynton on Board, a quartet of concept board books. Each volume features a die-cut front cover framing a picture of its ebullient cartoon stars.
Barnyard Dance! is another in a series of fun little books to delight. The animals have a square dance, replete with rhyme. The illustrations, as always, are realistic enough yet still imaginative. The words make the book come alive. They have a beat and almost sound like music when read out-loud. The words rhyme, but one almost doesn't realize it because by that time they are borne onward by the wonderful tide of words. Like always, the pictures are excellent as well.
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