Sesame Street Toddler Books is a book series picturing the Sesame Street characters as toddlers, given names like "Little Ernie" and "Little Bert". The series, illustrated by Norman Gorbaty, was published between 1987 and 1992. In 1992, the concept was continued in a new franchise, Sesame Street Babies, and relaunched again in 2006 as Sesame Beginnings.