Philadelphia Chickens: The 21st Anniversary Edition

by Sandra Boynton (Author) Sandra Boynton (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

From the one and only Sandra Boynton comes the tuneful, toe-tapping hardcover Philadelphia Chickens. Celebrating its 21st anniversary, this catchy and quirky musical-in-a-book has been completely redrawn and redesigned for the next generation of readers, singers, and musicians.

  •  Grammy nominated!
  •  #1 New York Times bestseller!
  • A platinum album with over 1 million copies sold!
  • Plus a book and CD!

What an event! What a show! Here is a full-color songbook of 17 1/2 illustrated story-poems, and a full-length, fully orchestrated CD of original songs performed by such luminaries as Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, The Bacon Brothers, and Laura Linney, who pleads "Please, Can I Keep It?--it followed me home. / What exactly it is / I don't know."

Also joining in are Eric Stoltz, Scott Bakula, and two Boyntons, including daughter Caitlin McEwan, who performs a piece that every little listener will relate to--a love song to the chocolate chip cookies that are just out of reach. With the collaboration of composer Michael Ford, Philadelphia Chickens is that rarest of kids' record collections--one whose inimitable lyrics and music make it as irresistible to parents as it is to their children. 

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"Lions and tigers ... and dancing pigs? Welcome to the magical menagerie of author Sandra Boynton."— "People Magazine"
Sandra Boynton
Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children's author, songwriter, producer, and director. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over 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. She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade 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 1 million copies sold). Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning "One Shoe Blues" starring B.B. King, "Alligator Stroll" starring Josh Turner, and "Tyrannosaurus Funk" (animation) sung by Samuel L. Jackson. She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781665926973
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Boynton Bookworks
Publication date
September 20, 2023
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV031040 - Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts | Music
JUV002000 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | General
Library of Congress categories
Musicals

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