Written by | Jeffrey Moss |
Illustrator | Leon Jason Studios |
Published | 1971 |
Publisher | Western Publishing |
Series | A Golden Shape Book |
People in Your Neighborhood is a Sesame Street storybook based on the song, "The People in Your Neighborhood".
The book describes various occupations such as the postman, grocer, baker, fireman, dentist, and bus driver.
A new version was re-issued in 1983, with illustrations by Richard Brown picturing the familiar Sesame characters in the occupations: Big Bird (mailman), Cookie Monster (baker), Mr. Hooper (newsdealer), Rodeo Rosie, Herry Monster (barber), Prairie Dawn (bus driver), Telly Monster (dentist), Ernie and Bert (firemen), Betty Lou (doctor), Oscar the Grouch (trash collector), and Grover (shoemaker).