Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A new Boynton board book for bedtime (and for a silly read-aloud any time and all the time ), with a downloadable soundtrack performed by Yo-Yo Ma. It's nighttime in the jungle and the animals are gently snoring...until the elephant joins in
Synopsis
Introducing Jungle Night, a worthy companion to the 24-million-copy, perennially bestselling Boynton on Board series.
Jungle Night is a fabulously jungly Boynton bedtime board book, in a cool new size. PLUS there's a free download: a mesmerizing 4-minute nighttime soundtrack featuring Yo-Yo Ma on cello, Ron Block (of Alison Krauss Union Station) on guitar, and Keith Boynton narrating. The music is Erik Satie's beloved "Gymnop die No. 1" plus cool jungle percussion--making it a "Jungle Gymnop die."
Sandra Boynton's board books are not just books, they are sales events. And no wonder: kids and parents alike love the captivating rhythmic text, the clever humor, and the terrific animal characters. In Jungle Night, Boynton debuts a new, larger format and a more intricate landscape. And everything that makes Boynton...well, BOYNTON...is here: a great cast of characters (Jungle frogs Wild river-hogs Even a gorilla ) and language and sounds that are so fun to read aloud. Plus an irresistible flourish of silliness that the youngest readers will love.
Jungle Night is a delightful book to read, with pictures to love, and a great musical track to download--all meant to be savored over and over, for a family bedtime experience of pure joy.
- A companion to Boynton on Board, the phenomenal bestselling series with over 24 million copies in print
- A delightful bedtime book featuring many gently-snoring jungle animals--and one elephant who is snoring not even CLOSE to gently.
- World-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma plays on the downloadable soundtrack
- For ages 0 and up
Synopsis
It's a sleepy jungle out there
It's nighttime in the jungle. The moon will surely rise. All the animals are sleeping, with whisperings and sighs. But sometime after midnight, the elephant goes. . . SNORE
Make bedtime a silly celebration with Sandra Boynton's Jungle Night, a charming, rhyming story of snoozing jungle animals--jungle frogs wild river-hogs and a gorilla --and some big nighttime noises.
PLUS there's a free audio download of a soundtrack featuring Yo-Yo Ma on cello and narration by Keith Boynton,
Synopsis
Sandra Boynton and Yo-Yo Ma Plus snoozing jungle animals
Two celebrated artists come together for JUNGLE NIGHT, a soothing bedtime board book. (Okay, MOSTLY soothing.) The book guides us through the jungle to hear the distinctive, gentle snore of each animal: "Listen to the tiger: ZEEE-ZOOO-HAAA. Listen to the cheetah: CHEE-CHEE-TAAAH." A free downloadable JUNGLE NIGHT recording offers a narration of the book, with each and every animal snore interpreted by the expressive, playful cello of Yo-Yo Ma. He even does the elephant's stop-the-show snore--though admittedly that took Ma's cello PLUS the classic horn salute of the James R. Barker steamship. (Seriously.) All of this fabulousness leads into the coolest lullaby ever: "Jungle Gymnop die No. 1", a polyrhythmic jungly arrangement by Boynton of Erik Satie's renowned piece, with Yo-Yo Ma on cello, guitar played by Ron Block of Alison Krauss Union Station, and drums by Kevin MacLeod. "Yo-Yo and I chose this piece because it's the most gorgeous and mesmerizing night song imaginable," explains Boynton. "And there was surely nothing else that could get those animals back to sleep after that elephant blast."