Boynton wrote the album because she was unhappy with the available recorded children's music.
[1] She later wrote that she sought to "create an album that would somewhat parallel that ran beneath my own childhood".
[3] The album was reissued in 2004 with an enhanced version of the accompanying book, listed various as Rhinoceros Tap: 15 Seriously Silly Songs and simply as Rhinoceros Tap (ISBN 0761133232).
[5] The album contains the song "Barnyard Dance", with the lyrics taken from a 1993 book of the same name by Boynton (ISBN 1563054426, Workman Publishing) that Publishers Weekly identified as the 118th best-selling children's hardcover book of all time.
[6] Boynton later created books based on the songs "Perfect Piggies" (ISBN 0761159932 , Workman Publishing, 2012) and "Tickle Time" (ISBN 0761168834, Workman Publishing, 2012).