Pajama Time!
By Sandra Boynton
Workman Publishing, $6.95
ISBN 0761119752

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Hey! Wake Up!
By Sandra Boynton
Workman Publishing, $6.95
ISBN 0761119760

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Title of your new books:
Hey! Wake up! and Pajama Time!

Describe your books in 50 words or less:
Sturdy. Colorful. Shiny. Odd. Smallish. Subtle. Popularly-priced. Rhythmical. Droll. Non-edible. New! Catchy. Perhaps profound. Ebullient. Ever-so-slightly vertical; seemingly square.

What has been the biggest influence on your writing and artwork?
My family; fear of having to get a real job; chocolate (dark).

What was your favorite subject in school? Why?
English. Because you learn how to be articulate and stuff.

Who was your childhood hero?
Snoopy, Shirley Temple, Soupy Sales, Little Lulu, Fyodor Dostoevsky.

What books did you read as a child?
My favorite was Dickon Among the Lenape, now inexplicably retitled The Indians of New Jersey.

Do you write and/or illustrate other types of books? If so, what kinds?
Most recently Grunt: Pigorian Chant, a book and CD of polyphony and plainchant in Latin and Pig Latin.

If you could trade plces with one extremely famous person for one day, who would it be and why?
Tara Lipinski or Michael Jordan. I'd love to know the sublimity of transcendent physical excellence. And stuff.

What message would you like to send to all children?
"If you don't know the answer, fill up the space joyfully anyhow."