Elmo S Merry Christmas Oscar S Grouchy Christmas Sesame Street

Titles from separate title pages; works issued back-to-back and inverted.

Count down to Christmas with Elmo and his friends in this holiday flap book. Includes a built-in Christmas Countdown calendar with 25 flaps! Christmas is coming and Elmo can hardly wait! Kids can join Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird, and all their friends as they get ready for Christmas on Sesame Street. Dozens of flap surprises throughout and an exciting countdown calendar at the end of the book will make this a fast holiday favorite!

Elmo and his Sesame Street friends help convince Oscar that Christmas is a season for warmth and sharing.

Join Elmo as he helps his mommy and Aunt Sue bake Christmas cookies the day before Christmas.

From the manger of Jesus Christ to the 21st century, this encyclopedia explores more than 2,000 years of Christmas past and present through 966 entries packed with a wide variety of historical and pop-culture subjects. Entries detail customs and traditions from around the world as well as classic Christmas movies, TV series/specials and animated cartoons. Arranged alphabetically by entry name, the book includes the historical background of popular sacred and secular songs as well as accounts of beloved literary works with Christmas themes from such noted authors as Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Pearl Buck, Henry Van Dyke and others. All things Christmas are available here in one comprehensive volume.

Elmo and the Sesame Street Muppets celebrate all the colors that make Christmas bright and festive.

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol Channing and lovable Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2019 are included in this edition. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.