Getting Ready to Read



Getting Ready to Read is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video special.

The video promotes reading skills with various Sesame inserts, along with a new framing sequence where Big Bird operates his own "Reading Hotline."

Cast
Characters in new footage:
 * Big Bird, Sam, Rocky, Pammy, Oscar the Grouch, Old McDougal, Maria, Homer Honker, Honker, Ferlinghetti Donizetti

Characters in old sketches:
 * Ernie, Bert, Cookie Monster, Kermit the Frog, Grover, Farley, Same Sound Brown, Two-Headed Monster, Bip Bippadotta, Anything Muppets

Credits

 * Starring:
 * Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
 * Jim Henson's Muppets:
 * Frank Oz as Cookie Monster, Bert, Fat Blue "Fat Cat" performer, and Grover
 * Jerry Nelson as Farley, Green "Fat Cat" performer, Lavender OP Word Family Anything Muppet singer, and Two-Headed Monster
 * Richard Hunt as Two-Headed Monster
 * Fran Brill as Green OP Word Family Anything Muppet singer and others
 * Martin P. Robinson as Monster and Rocky
 * Kevin Clash as Sam and Ferlinghetti Donizetti
 * Pam Arciero as Pammy and others
 * Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog, Ernie, Lavender "Fat Cat" performer and Bip Bippadotta
 * Uncredited
 * Northern Calloway as Same Sound Brown


 * Cast:
 * Sonia Manzano as Maria