A Sesame Street Christmas (book)

Written by	Pat Tornborg
Illustrator	Tom Cooke
Published	1982
Publisher	Western Publishing
ISBN	0307141934

A Sesame Street Christmas features the Sesame Street Muppets getting together on a rainy Christmas and telling stories, reciting poems, and singing songs. The original edition also included recipes and crafts.

A shortened version was released in paperback in 1987, and as a book and tape set, dropping most of the activities and adding two song tracks from the 1975 album Merry Christmas from Sesame Street. Caroll Spinney voices his characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, and in their narrated stories, Big Bird and Oscar provide voices for other characters such as Ernie, Bert, Grover, and Prairie Dawn; in some cases, Spinney voices Oscar doing his impression of Big Bird.

Contents

1982

• "The Night Before Christmas on Sesame Street" (Big Bird's version of A Visit from St. Nicholas)
• "Wet Christmas" (Oscar's version of "White Christmas")
• "Big Bird's Bird Feeder" (craft)
• "Nutcracker Sweets" (recipes)
• "To Ernie From Bert" (craft using bottlecaps)
• "To Bert From Ernie" (craft using Bert's oatmeal boxes)
• "A Christmas Poem by Big Bird"
• "White Christmas" (poem, craft, dessert snowballs recipe)
• "The Count's Twelve Days of Christmas Calendar"
• "Oscar's Christmas Carol" (Oscar's version of A Christmas Carol)
• "Cookie Monster's Christmas Tree" (craft)
• "The Count's Christmas Tree" (craft)
• "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas" (Big Bird's variation)
• "Thoughts That Count"
• "The Count's Christmas Castle" (craft)
• "A Wrap Session"
• "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
• "Bert's Recipes"

1987

• "The Night Before Christmas on Sesame Street"
• "Oscar's Christmas Carol (A Dickens of a Story)"
• "I Hate Christmas"
• "A Wrap Session"
• "Gifts for "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (song from Merry Christmas from Sesame Street)

Characters

Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Grover, Ernie, Bert, The Amazing Mumford, Count von Count, Prairie Dawn, Betty Lou, Herry Monster, Mr. Hooper, Roosevelt Franklin, Rubber Duckie, Bats, Rosie, Grover's Mommy, Prairie Dawn's Mom, Santa Claus, Reindeer

Other releases

Golden Book and Tape
1987
13997

Golden Book and Tape
1987
14193

Merrigold Press
1987
ASIN B002NITWQ0

Western Publishing
1987
ISBN 0307158179

See also

• Sesame Street book and audio sets discography