Sandra Boynton on why her hippos have gone from berserk to, suddenly, calm.
A “wild counting story” about a hippo whose home is visited by first two hippos, then three, then four, until 45 hippos are partying hearty all the night long, the book was the start of a prolific career in children’s literature, music, and theater. Boynton’s simply drawn sheep, chickens, cows, ducks, and monsters have entertained children, and their parents, for nearly 50 years, but the hippos have always been at the heart of her work.
These two hippos have a number of tactics for remaining calm. They meditate. They take long walks. Are these also your methods for remaining calm? I grew up Quaker, and went to a wonderful Quaker school for 12 years, so finding stillness and encountering each person as an individual is pretty much baked in. And music and writing and art and critical thinking were also central to that education—which is the luckiest thing imaginable for a growing person. In consequence, I also find calm by drawing hippos and writing music and giving impertinent answers and stuff.You do seem to enjoy giving puckish answers to questions.
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