Seriously, I’ve spent hours playing with this thing. More than 85 million of her books have been sold, mostly to friends and. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. Kramer and every page features absurdly delightful interactive elements, such as a boat you can rock by turning your tablet back and forth and a screen that steams up in the bathroom. Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director. The app gives you the option to read it yourself or hear it read by the intensely soothing voice of Billy J. I also highly recommend the book’s digital app, which we have for our iPad. Our original copy was a full size hardcover book, which seems to be pretty difficult to obtain these days, when it is more widely available in its board book version. My love for author/illustrator Sandra Boynton is well known and this book was one of the first books we got when my husband and I learned that we were going to be parents. They all climb into their beds, wish each other goodnight and are rocked to sleep by the motion of their boat. When they come back down, they’re moving more slowly and all ready for bed. After this, they go back up on deck for a late night exercise session in the moonlight. Then they hang up their towels, change into pajamas and brush their teeth. Once the sun has set, all the animals go below deck to take a bath. The plot in a nutshell: A gang of animals on a boat prepare for bed. Written and Illustrated by Sandra Boynton Simon & Schuster, 1982
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