Youth Services

Sandra Boynton has written and illustrated over eighty-five books for children and seven general audience books, as well as over four thousand greeting cards, and seven music albums. She has also designed calendars, wallpaper, bedding, stationery, paper goods, clothing, jewelry, and plush toys for various companies. She went to Yale University, entering in 1970 in the college’s second year of coeducation. At Yale, she majored in English at her graduation from Yale in 1974, she received a Special Master’s Magna the Master of Boynton’s residential college, Calhoun College. Unbeknownst to the graduation audience, the honor was actually a fiction. Boynton’s GPA did not in fact entitle her to any degree honor; but shortly before the ceremony, she had told Professor Davis “my parents are here, so I’d really appreciate it if you could just mumble some Latin after my name”. Boynton intended to become a theater director. With the birth of her first child in 1979, Boynton postponed indefinitely a career in the theater, judging the demands of that profession not easily compatible with raising a family. She has since worn many hats as a songwriter, director, music producer, children’s author, and illustrator. Corinne (the Library Director) was lucky enough to share the stage with Darcy Boynton in a production of Music Man where she met Mrs. Boynton and her life remains forever changed by not only Darcy’s kindness but Sandra’s as well. Mrs. Boynton sat with the kids of the production for well over an hour after just talking. She signed all of the books they brought and was jolly through the entire thing. She may not remember us but I know each kid remembers her. If you want your children to read charismatic authors look no further! Start with one of this women’s 85 board books (and counting!) many of which are available in Cairo’s Board Book Section. You may recognize one or two from Storytime with Miss Crystal.

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Jenny Han was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, America in the year of 1980. Han went to College at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating at the New School in New York City, where she received an MFA in Writing for Children. Han writes books for children and teens. Her first book was a children’s book, ‘Shug’. The first book Han wrote for teens, was the first of the ‘Belly series’, or the ‘Summer Series’, ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’. The second and third books in the series are ‘It’s Not Summer Without You’ and ‘We’ll Always Have Summer’. Jenny says that her weaknesses include cookbooks, boys with dimples, biscuits with butter and jam, an afternoon nap, popcorn at the movies. Her special talents/abilities include dialogue from the movie Clueless, the perfect brownie, board games, neat handwriting, 90s song lyrics, nicknaming people and stuffed animals.

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Mental Health Resources – Mental Health can be hard! You don’t have to do it alone. We have collected resources to help Greene County Residents.