Button Sunday

This button came to me sometime during the 1970s or 1980s. I could have purchased it myself. In subsequent years, I’ve come to think of it as the Lynne button, because come every December, she sings that annoying “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” song. In fact, almost every Christmas, I give her a hippopotamus of one kind or another, most of which I’m sure she no longer has. I guess that’s why she always ends up wanting another one.

This button is the work of cartoonist and author Sandra Boynton. I’m not sure there’s anyone in the United States who hasn’t given or received one of her greeting cards.

Even hippos.