Consider Love

by Sandra Boynton, Sandra Boynton (Illustrator)

Overview

Children and adults alike will adore this reissue of the playful, illustrated ode to love in its many forms from bestselling humorist Sandra Boynton.

From the sentimental to the soulful, this delightful book explores the many and curious modes of love using adorable pictures and pleasing phrases. Also it rhymes. And it makes a fantastically thoughtful gift that anyone will, well, love!

This refreshed edition of Sandra Boynton’s celebrated tribute to affection, devotion, and all things lovely features the original endearing illustrations with an all-new cover—and a whole lotta heart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442494657
Publisher:	Boynton Bookworks
Publication date:	12/03/2013
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 8.18(h) x 0.44(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

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.

Hometown:

"Somewhere in rural Connecticut"

Date of Birth:

April 3, 1953

Place of Birth:

Orange, New Jersey

Education:

B.A., Yale University, 1974; attended University of California--Berkeley Drama School and Yale Drama School

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Celebrate love in all its glorious shapes and sizes with bestselling author Sandra Boynton. This cheerful romp through one of life's greatest gifts explores the many faces of the oft-discussed sentiment. Boynton shows us "love perhaps foolish" (a hippo dives head-first into a layer cake) and "love despairing" (a lowly rabbit waiting by the phone). There's "love problematic" (two porcupines staring tenderly at each other) and "love mysterious" (a cloaked elephant presents a heart to another).

Spare but spirited rhyming text ("A love that appreciates fire, and grace./ A love that adores / one remarkable face./ A love that is steady, devoted, and true -- / Consider my love for incredible you") lets the humor and beauty of the illustrations shine through. Boynton's signature use of fluid lines and unforgettable facial expressions allows readers to relate to every adorable animal. Their passion, frustration, bravery, eloquence, and hope are all ours to enjoy and embrace. Finally, we see all of Boynton's creatures together as the book comes to an end, and we are shown the true meaning of love.

A superlative gift for your special someone. (Amy Barkat)

bn.com

A pair of books just right for a special someone arrive in time for Valentine's Day. Consider Love: Its Moods and Many Ways by Sandra Boynton, first published in 2002, appears here in a square, paper-over-board mini-edition. The hand-size volume enumerates love in its many manifestations. One standout spread: "Love that is clever," depicting a fox climbing a ladder to gather grapes for his heartthrob, appears opposite, "Love that is foolish," for which a hippo highdives into a tiered chocolate cake. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Arriving just in time for Valentine's Day gift giving, this bouncy volume should please the palates of those searching for a sweet confection for a special someone. An appealing menagerie of Boynton's inimitable animal characters court and cavort through these buoyant pages, demonstrating how love "comes in every shape, and style." Acting out emotions suggested by the minimal rhyming text, these critters demonstrate such phenomena as "hopeful love" (a rabbit's ears form the shape of a heart), "love extravagant" (an elephant presents his amour with an entire apple tree, roots and all), "love perhaps foolish" (a hippo dives head-first into a layer cake) and "love overzealous" (a beaver chomps heart-shaped designs on tree trunks). In a final spread, the animals gather together as the narrative winds to an unabashedly sentimental, sing-song close: "Now consider one love in the midst of the crowd an affectionate love, neither timid nor loud.... A love that is steady, devoted, and true Consider my love for incredible you." Aw, shucks. What's not to love or at least like? All ages. (Jan.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

While clearly intended as pop candy for the grown-up soul, Boynton's latest has a genuine appeal for children of several ages. She has a definite way with words and illustrates them with her waggish, anthropomorphized animals, rich in linear expression and familiar to anyone who has been in a greeting-card store in the past couple of decades. "There's simple love"-two bears waltzing-"and love mysterious"-a veiled elephant presents a heart to another; "Frivolous love"-a cow sporting heart-shaped earrings and eyeglasses "and love too serious"-an anxious turkey interrupts his ladylove's reading. "Comfortable love" finds two pigs side-by-side, while "love problematic" has two porcupines gazing soulfully at each other. There are lots of titles that talk to children about divorce and loss and blended families; but there aren't all that many that talk about love-handholding, Valentine-sending love-in such a direct way. "A love that appreciates fire, and grace. / A love that adores / one remarkable face. / A love that is steady, devoted, and true- / Consider my love for incredible you." (Picture book. 7 )

Kirkus Reviews