Granny Bird
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Granny Bird is Big Bird's grandmother. She is almost identical in appearance to her grandson except for her clothes, the gray feathers in her forehead, faded eyelids, and eyeglasses.
The puppet used for Granny Bird is a spare Big Bird puppet, and Caroll Spinney provides her voice. As Granny's appearances are often alongside Big Bird, her voice is usually pre-recorded so that Spinney can perform Big Bird.
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Episodes
- Episode 3006: Big Bird goes to visit Granny on Grandmas Day. However, when he sees a sick wolf in bed he thinks that the wolf ate Granny Bird, until the wolf mentions that Granny Bird was a friend of hers, and Big Bird just got their addresses wrong (Granny Bird lives on 12 Forrest Road, and Granny Wolf lives on 12 Forrest Street). Granny Bird then comes over to visit Granny Wolf.
- Episode 3979: When Big Bird's nest is destroyed in a hurricane, Granny provides suggestions over the phone about how to rebuild the nest.
- Episode 3984: Big Bird sends Granny an e-mail asking for some of her homemade birdseed. She sends him a bag, and he writes her a thank-you note.
- Episode 4086: Big Bird and Alan bake birdseed cookies for Granny Bird's visit.
Book appearances
Granny Bird makes a substantial appearance in the 1989 Little Golden Book I Can't Wait Until Christmas. In illustrated form, Granny Bird loses her gray feathers and subsequently looks even more like Big Bird, although she does sport a pair of pince-nez eyeglasses.
- The Sesame Street Dictionary (1980)
- What Did You Bring? (1980)
- Big and Little Stories (1982)
- The Sesame Street Word Book (1983)
- I Want to Go Home! (1985)
- Big Bird Goes to the Doctor (1986)
- A Bird's Best Friend (1986)
- Nothing to Do (1988)
- Get Well, Granny Bird (1989)
- I Can't Wait Until Christmas (1989)
- I Want to Be a Doctor (1991)
- Best Friends (1992)
- From Trash to Treasure (1993)
- Which Witch is Which? (1996)
- Big Bird's Baby Book (1998)
- Watch Out for Banana Peels (2000)
- What Makes You Giggle? (2007)
