Everyone Makes Mistakes is a 1983 Sesame Street storybook featuring Big Bird.

Big Bird, who isn't watching where he's going, accidentally walks into Susan's clothesline. After knocking the laundry all over the ground, Big Bird is worried about how angry Susan will get, and attempts to think up several lies to use, such as a flock of geese knocking it down, the circus using it to practice, a runaway giraffe getting tangled up in it, the fire department accidentally running it over, a rodeo running through the yard, a tornado wreaking havoc, etc. but soon they begin to get mixed up, and Big Bird winds up telling Susan the truth. She immediately forgives Big Bird for the incident.

Characters

• Big Bird, Susan, Biff, Sully, Rodeo Rosie, Alphabet Bates, Betty Lou, Farley, Roosevelt Franklin, and The Anything Muppets.

Other versions

reissue edition

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• This book was also adapted into the video Three Sesame Street Stories. Due to the absence of Loretta Long for the voices, Fran Brill provides the voice of Susan, who is referred to instead as "Mrs. Washington". Little Bird was also added to the video version of the story, via reusing illustrations of the character from Big Bird and Little Bird's Big & Little Book, also illustrated by A. Delaney.
• It was also reissued with other Sesame Street books in the treasury Story Land in 1986.

Translations

Tout le monde a le droit d'être maladroitCanada
Laffont, 1985
transl. by Pauline Normand and Marielle Richer
ISBN 2891493303

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See also

• "Everyone Makes Mistakes" (song)