Cows and Holly

Oh joy! Cows and Holly is a sparkling new Sandra Boynton Christmas album for everyone everywhere--plus illustrated songbook! Zooey Deschanel, Lyle Lovett, Yo-Yo Ma, Patti LuPone, Raúl Esparza, Patrick Warburton, Fountains of Wayne’s Chris Collingwood, Linda Eder, Stuart Duncan, Viktor Krauss, and many others perform a wild variety of new new new Christmas songs, all with a Christmas classics feel to them. (Plus ＂Deck the Halls＂ with a barnyard twist...) Ranging from 60s surf rock to a cappella motet to Celtic jig to 50s Rat Pack crooner to Doo-wop to Broadway to folk/country and beyond, Cows and Holly takes you on a wild and wonderful ride through the many moods of Christmas, through the many styles and eras of its music.

Grammy(R)-nominated for her Platinum-certified Philadelphia Chickens, Boynton’s six previous picture-book-with-CD albums have two Gold records, one Platinum, and have sold over three million copies. Sales of Boynton’s beloved children’s and humor books are nearing 90 million copies. And she truly loves Christmas and its glorious music.

Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. More than 85 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 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). 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＂ (animated) 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.