Linda Hayward

Linda Hayward is the author of many Sesame Street books, including The Sesame Street Dictionary. An elementary school teacher before entering publishing, Hayward was director of educational publishing at Golden Books. Moving to Random House, she managed the Step into Reading series and started the First Stepping Stones series. She conceived and wrote the Dr. Seuss Beginner Fun Books series.

Books

Early Bird on Sesame Street
1980

Going Up!
1980

The Case of the Missing Duckie
1980

The Sesame Street Dictionary
1980

The Sesame Street Storybook Alphabet
1980

Twiddlebugs at Work
1980

A Day in the Life of Oscar the Grouch
1981

Big Bird's Sesame Street Dictionary
1981

Sesame Seasons
1981

The Sesame Street Sun
1981

Which One Doesn't Belong?
1981

The City Worm and the Country Worm
1983

I Can Count to Ten and Back Again
1985

Look What I Can Do
1985

Mine!
1988

Grover's Summer Vacation
1989

The Biggest Cookie in the World
1989

Elmo Goes to Day Camp
1990

Ernie and Bert's Summer Project
1991

Baker, Baker, Cookie Maker
1998

Anthologies

Read Around Sesame Street
2014
includes: "Baker, Baker, Cookie Maker"

The Sesame Street Treasury Volume 8
1983

Story Land
1986
includes: "The Case of the Missing Duckie", and "A Day in the Life of Oscar the Grouch"

On My Way with Sesame Street Volume 9
1989
includes: "Signs Along the Highway" from Sesame Seasons

On My Way with Sesame Street Volume 5
1989

Elmo Presents...The Very Best of Sesame Street
2001
includes: "Going Up with Grover"