A guide to being grouchy, written and illustrated by the world's greatest grouch--Sesame Street's Oscar! So you want to be a grouch? Oscar, Sesame Street's resident grouch, is here to tell you how, in this hysterical hardcover book written and illustrated by Caroll Spinney--the puppeteer who brought Oscar to grouchy life for almost 50 years. This one-of-a-kind book offers laugh-out-loud, hilariously illustrated advice on how to live grouchily all day, every day, from morning (set your alarm clock to go off too early, and make sure it's LOUD!) till night (relax by playing broken records!). It's the perfect gift for grouches and Sesame Street fans of ALL AGES! Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, aims to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder through its many unique domestic and international initiatives. These projects cover a wide array of topics, which address specific needs, such as girls' education, financial empowerment, and autism. Sesame Street is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2019--a yearlong celebration that highlights 50 years of distributing quality educational content to families around the world. Sesame Street is the most trusted name in early learning.

In The Pursuit of Grouchiness, Oscar the Grouch teaches you how to lose friends and grouchily influence people. There’s no greater expert on celebrating a crummy day than Oscar the Grouch. After complaining about cheerfulness for decades from his trash can on Sesame Street, Oscar now shares his secrets for making sure you’re as curmudgeonly as possible, all day, every day. It's the perfect gift for your grouchy friends, your annoyingly upbeat friends who could stand to be a little grouchier, and even just yourself—because a bad day can always get worse. Now get lost! And have a rotten day! An Imprint Book "MMM, me LOVE this book. So tasty! (Might be fun to read, too.)" —Cookie Monster For more fun from folks who live on Sesame Street, check out Cookie Monster's The Joy of Cookies and Bert and Ernie's The Importance of Being Ernie (and Bert).

Oscar the Grouch has a bad day when the sunny weather inspires everyone on Sesame Street to do some sping cleaning.

The Sesame Street Muppets demonstrate the types of work done by farmers, butchers, pilots, veterinarians, cooks, and others.

An inspiring message for all ages: Find your inner bird. If you’re looking for wisdom and joy in your life, go straight to Sesame Street and heed the words of its most beloved and profound resident, Caroll Spinney, who has spent the past thirty-four years in a bird costume (and a trash can) as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. Three decades inside a giant puppet have taught Spinney a valuable and surprising lesson: Being a bird can make you a better person. In The Wisdom of Big Bird, the living legend of Sesame Street describes how we can all find our inner bird (or grouch). Each chapter illustrates a piece of useful wisdom Spinney has gleaned from a career in feathers. The lessons Big Bird teaches children every day on Sesame Street are the same ones that have brought Spinney success and satisfaction in his own life. Warm, witty, and affirming, Caroll Spinney’s memoir proves that being a bird can make you a better and happier person. “Every day on Sesame Street, we strive to give our innocent young audience the basis of a lifelong education. It is no accident that spending the past thirty-four years in the Bird suit teaching these lessons to others has taught me a few things, too.”—from The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch)

Oscar learns that it's always best to be yourself when you hope to make friends.

Sesame Street's resident grouch devises several ingenious and humorous schemes to escape from his persistent readers.