Great Cookie Thief

by Emily Perl Kingsley

A town has a Terrible Problem - a feller been stealing cookies from all the bakeries 'round these parts.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Westerns

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Emily Perl Kingsley is a writer who joined the Sesame Street team in 1970 and has been writing for the show ever since. She is well-known for her essay, Welcome to Holland , about having a child with a disability.

Reviews

[Melki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Back in the days when the West was really WILD, a rootin' tootin' varmint was stealin' all the warm, delicious cookies from the Western bakeries. (Funny . . . I don't remember any bakeries in Gunsmoke or Bonanza. I guess they weren't as prominent as saloons and dry goods stores.) Anyway, the Muppet citizenry of one town attempts to compare an odd feller to a wanted poster with hilarious results.



The book contains all the silliness and jollity you've come to expect from Henson's Muppets. I so wish I'd known about this one when my boys were small. They'd have loved it.

[Chelsea · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book that started it all lol. Our son LOVES all the hats in this book! We’ve read this book many times since my husband brought it home. So much fun 💕.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. My nephew and I read this today, and thought it was reasonably entertaining. It's a great little book for preschool kids, and it's especially entertaining if they're learning comparing and contrasting, or matching. The twist in this earned a few chuckles from my nephew, and he did like the book well enough to have me share it with his sister. She's much too old to really groove on a Sesame Street book, but she enjoyed the upshot of this little story, too. We read this with The Monster at the End of this Book, and we found that they worked well together to cheer up my nephew, who was a little sad today.

[Bobby · Rating 5 out of 5]

Once there was a town with a serious problem...[or something like that]

And so began the manhunt for the dastardly Great Cookie Thief, a master of wit and disguise with a penchant for poor first-person pronoun usage.

"Ah, but me not have same mustache!"

[Aulia Gina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very entertaining! I luv it!

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this to my daughter this morning and it was definitely a fun one. I tried to put in voices where I could as the book is pretty much all dialogue in a comic book speech bubble style with characters in a Wild West-style town lamenting the fact they “have a problem” known as The Great Cookie Thief and they try to work out if this one guy is actually the same guy on the poster!
My daughter was easily distracted at first but as the characters got more panicked it became more exciting and as soon as I put on a Cookie Monster voice, she loved it! I can see us revisiting this one. There’s so much to explore and talk about in the artwork too.

[Alex Salazar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book regularly to my daughter when she was a toddler and throughout her early childhood. With a little silliness the words really come alive and is unforgettable. I recently ran across the book and it brought me such joy to thumb through it. I ordered her a copy and had it mailed to her home some 135 miles away. I think it may have made her day. Get this book. Read it to your kids. Be silly.

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE this one. It was such a favorite of mine as a kid.

[Ice 9 · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is the story of a cookie thief and the people who hunt for him. https://letterstocassiandotherfolks.b...

[Eleanor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pure Sesame Street from the 70s. A fun read.

[Chrissy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this with Lottie for bedtime - lots of fun!

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most Sesame Street (and others like Disney, etc.) are so sanitized and blah these days that this is refreshing. Set in the Wild West, a most wanted poster showing Cookie Monster as a cookie thief is up in a cowboy bar. All of a sudden, Cookie Monster is seen next to the poster. Everyone notices and comments how it is the same monster. Cookie speaks up and says they are not the same and then defaces the poster.

I think there is another punch line, but my version of the book has a missing last page so I am not certain.

I like this book as it is far more interesting than any other Sesame Street book I have read.

[Melinda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is awesome! It's especially good when read to a group of children, with cool voices and lots of enthusiasm. One of our most favorite children's books ever!

It teaches observation and watching for clues, plus common sense... LOL thinking about it.

[for-much-deliberation ... · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had the entire collection of this Sesame Street series as a child, damn it was great!!!

[Leah · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG, I stumbled across this book just now, and I remembered how incredible it is.