A Bird's Best Friend

Written by	Tish Sommers
Illustrator	Maggie Swanson
Published	1986
Publisher	Goldencraft
Series	A Growing-Up Book
ISBN	0307621189

A Bird's Best Friend is a 1986 Sesame Street book telling the story of how Barkley came to live on Sesame Street.

Granny Bird gives Big Bird a puppy, to show that she thinks her grandson is responsible enough to have his own pet. It's not easy at first, but soon Big Bird and Barkley become good pals.

Sherlock Hemlock's dog Watson makes his debut appearance in this book. In this book, he looks something like a bloodhound in a Sherlock Holmes-esque deerstalker cap, while in Watson's later appearances on Sesame Street's Mysterious Theater segments in the early 1990s, he resembled something of a smaller brown terrier that is naked except for a collar.

Cast

Heard on Book and Tape releases:

Caroll Spinney as Big Bird, Granny Bird, and Oscar the Grouch
Martin P. Robinson as Telly Monster and the narrator
Frank Oz as Grover and Bert
Fran Brill as Prairie Dawn
Jerry Nelson as Sherlock Hemlock
Jim Henson as Ernie
Sonia Manzano as Maria

Other editions

Translations

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