She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America. King, “Alligator Stroll” starring Josh Turner, and “Tyrannosaurus Funk” (animated) sung by Samuel L. Only humans are deadlier to other humans, and hippos are almost twice as lethal as lions.

(National Geographic, 2021) Even if we consider the estimate of 500 hippo-related deaths per year, it’s safe to call it the world’s deadliest land mammal. Unfortunate, since that would be a worthy backstory. The hippopotamus is the world’s deadliest land mammal. A hesitant hippo makes a big impact in this whimsical story about taking a chance from board book creator Sandra Boynton. Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning “One Shoe Blues” starring B.B. The urban legend is that the song was recorded as a fundraiser to get a hippopotamus at a local zoo, but apparently that's not the reality.

Three of her six albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold) and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has been certified Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children’s music. But Not the Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton 4.2 (43) Board Book 6. More than 85 million of her books have been sold, “mostly to friends and family,” she says. A shy hippo makes a big impact in this Sandra Boynton classic. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate. Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director.

But not the hippopotamus