- Sandra Boynton is known for Five for Fighting: Penguin Lament (2010), Josh Turner: Alligator Stroll (2013) and Be Like a Duck (2009). She was previously married to Jamie McEwan.
- SpouseJamie McEwan(1978 - 2014) (his death, 4 children)
- Maurice Sendak was one of her professors at Yale.
- She attended Yale, planning to become a theater director. To help pay tuition, she painted cartoon-style animals onto blank cards and sold them to specialty shops. Over the next two years she water-colored 60,000 cards by hand. She was introduced to the founders of a small Chicago company called Recycled Paper Greetings, and signed a contract with them. At that point, the company was doing about $1 million a year in sales. Within five years their annual revenue topped $100 million, almost all due to the popularity of Boynton's cards.
- She is a popular children's author and greeting card designer; whimsical animals are her forte.
- She grew up in a Quaker family in Philadelphia.
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