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Storybookabcs
Written by Meg McLaughlin
Illustrator Tom Brannon
Published 2008
Publisher Dalmatian Press
ISBN 1403750181
Storybook-lefty

Storybook ABCs is a Sesame Street alphabet book that presents a scene from a fairy tale or nursery rhyme for each letter. Published in 2008 but reworking the 1980 book The Sesame Street Storybook Alphabet, it features a few classic Muppet characters, including Grundgetta and Gladys the Cow. Several entries are directly remade from the earlier book, which is why Lefty the Salesman sells the magic beans to Jack (Ernie in the original, Grover in this book).

Similarly, "the Frog Prince" story has the same concept (the frog returns a dropped ball), but it's changed from Kermit the Frog popping out of a well and returning the ball to a princess, to a princely frog lifeguard returning a soccer ball to Rosita at a pool.

The nursery rhymes and fairy tales included or referenced in the book are:

Cast[]

Abby Cadabby, Elmo, Mama Bear, Baby Bear, Curly Bear, Goldilocks, Gladys the Cow, Grover, Lefty the Salesman, Barkley, Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Rosita, Grundgetta, Prairie Dawn, Zoe, Mrs. Goose (in Muppet form), Count von Count, The Countess, Ernie, Bert, Telly Monster

Reissue[]

The book was reissued with the same cover in 2010 by Creative Edge/Dalmatian Press, ISBN 1403795212. It was also reprinted in the 2018 collection Big Book of ABCs and 123s.

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