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| + | '''The Sesame Street Storybook Alphabet''' is a ''[[Sesame Street]]'' alphabet book in which each letter corresponds to a fairy tale or nursery rhyme, as enacted by the Sesame Street Muppets. For example, the letter [[F]] stands for Frog, which represents "[[The Frog Prince]]". |
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| − | This Sesame Street book had a different lette ron each page. These letters had somehting to do with a fairy tale. For the letter '''F''', for example, the letter stood for '''Frog''', which represented '''The Frog Prince'''. [[Kermit the Frog]] made a rare appearance in a [[Sesame Street]] book for that page. Interestingly, a picture of [[Miss Piggy]] appears in the background in the page for the letter '''P''', which represented '''The Three Little Pigs'''. |
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| + | [[Kermit the Frog]] makes a rare ''Sesame'' book appearance on the "Frog" page. A picture of [[Miss Piggy]] appears in the background in the entry for the letter [[P]] ("[[The Three Little Pigs]]"). |
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| + | The stories and rhymes adapted include the following: "Chicken Little," "[[Goldilocks and the Three Bears]]," "[[Jack and the Beanstalk]]," "[[Old Mother Hubbard]]," "[[The Ugly Duckling]]" (with a game of "[[One of These Things|Three of These Things]]"), "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," "[[Hansel and Gretel]]," "The Brave Little Tailor," "[[Old King Cole]]," "[[Mary Had a Little Lamb]]," "[[The Princess and the Pea]]," "[[Wee Willie Winkie]]," "The Gingerbread Man," "[[The Three Little Pigs]]," "[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]," "[[Sleeping Beauty|The Sleeping Beauty]]," "[[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star|Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star]]," "[[Rapunzel]]," "[[Rain Rain Go Away|Rain, Rain, Go Away]]," "[[Cinderella]]," "The Princess Who Never Laughed," and "[[Sing a Song of Sixpence]]." |
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| + | ==Characters== |
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| + | [[Big Bird]], [[Bert]], [[Cookie Monster]], [[Ernie]], [[Grover]], [[Oscar the Grouch]], [[Betty Lou]], [[Herry Monster]], [[Prairie Dawn]], [[Count von Count]], [[Barkley]], [[Frazzle]], [[Prince Charming]], [[the Amazing Mumford]], [[Kermit the Frog]], [[Lefty the Salesman|The Salesman]], [[Rubber Duckie (duck)|Rubber Duckie]], [[Roosevelt Franklin]], [[the Big Bad Wolf]] (gray and fully dressed) |
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| + | Image:kermitssbook.jpg|A rare appearance by Kermit |
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| + | [[Category:Sesame Street Books|Sesame Street Storybook Alphabet, The]] |
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Revision as of 18:32, 10 July 2014
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| Written by | Linda Hayward |
| Illustrator | Tom Cooke |
| Published | 1980 |
| Publisher | Western Publishing |
| Series | Sesame Street Book Club |
| ISBN | 0307231011 |
The Sesame Street Storybook Alphabet is a Sesame Street alphabet book in which each letter corresponds to a fairy tale or nursery rhyme, as enacted by the Sesame Street Muppets. For example, the letter F stands for Frog, which represents "The Frog Prince".
Kermit the Frog makes a rare Sesame book appearance on the "Frog" page. A picture of Miss Piggy appears in the background in the entry for the letter P ("The Three Little Pigs").
The stories and rhymes adapted include the following: "Chicken Little," "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Old Mother Hubbard," "The Ugly Duckling" (with a game of "Three of These Things"), "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," "Hansel and Gretel," "The Brave Little Tailor," "Old King Cole," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "The Princess and the Pea," "Wee Willie Winkie," "The Gingerbread Man," "The Three Little Pigs," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "The Sleeping Beauty," "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," "Rapunzel," "Rain, Rain, Go Away," "Cinderella," "The Princess Who Never Laughed," and "Sing a Song of Sixpence."
Characters
Big Bird, Bert, Cookie Monster, Ernie, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Betty Lou, Herry Monster, Prairie Dawn, Count von Count, Barkley, Frazzle, Prince Charming, the Amazing Mumford, Kermit the Frog, The Salesman, Rubber Duckie, Roosevelt Franklin, the Big Bad Wolf (gray and fully dressed)
