The Sesame Street Dictionary (Sesame Street): Over 1,300 Words and Their Meanings Inside!

by Linda Hayward

This first book of words and their meanings is one of the best-loved Sesame Street titles published by Random House. It includes more than 1,300 entries, which include verbs, nouns, and adjectives. The full-color illustrations are full of trademark Sesame Street humor, making this book as much fun to leaf through as to use to look up a word.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published October 12, 1980

About the author

Linda was born in California’s Central Valley, but raised and schooled in south Alabama, during the turbulent 1960’s. Married to her high school sweetheart, she and Tom have two grandchildren, Georgia and Joshua, who give her plenty of ideas for writing children’s stories.

Her first book in the series, “Marshall Visit’s the Hospital,” Marshall leads children around a sometimes scary world, showing them there’s nothing to be afraid of in instances of doctor visits or the possibilities of staying in a hospital. In subsequent books, Marshall will show there are responsibilities to be met as a contributor to the family: caring for pets, helping others, volunteering one’s time, and even accepting a new baby into the household. It is hoped that Marshall will teach children about their world in a fun and entertaining way. The reality is, they may at sometime need to protect themselves against strangers and bullies. Marshall is here to help build their self-confidence and not make them afraid to stand up for themselves.

Marshall, will also teach the importance of staying healthy and seeing the fun in fitness.

It is Linda’s hope that children from the ages three to eight can relate and benefit from Marshall and his friend’s experiences.

Her first in a series, MARSHALL VISITS the HOSPITAL, was published and released in October 2008. Linda has worked in childcare development and has been a teacher’s assistant to first graders. She has written several short stories, for Ben Romero’s book, CHICKEN FLUFF AND OTHER STUFF, and for author, Janice Stevens’ anthology, STORIES OF SERVICE. She is currently working on a history project for the Clovis Unified School District, to be published and released in 2009.

Reviews

[R. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Library book sale. I found the Old School version, with Bert and Ernie and those tweedlebugs. Not the Elmoian horror you see presented here. I'd have to imagine the recent edition is changed, the 1980 edition features muppets that, I'm certain, kids wouldn't recognize (Roosevelt Franklin, Sully, Sherlock Hemlock).

Sample entry:

Dinosaur--A dinosaur is a kind of animal that lived millions of years ago.

(illustrated by Roosevelt Franklin sitting on top of a house; the house has just received a chomp on its roof from a brontosaurus (?) and Franklin states, "Some dinosaurs were bigger than houses. I'm glad there are no dinosaurs alive today."


Meanwhile, you know, the kid lives on a street full of vampires, monsters and...and sentient hybrid man-birds.

Sheesh.

[charissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a picture of the new edition, I guess, but I read the Sesame Street dictionary cover-to-cover until the covers came off... haha... I loved that book when I was 2-3, and I still have it 23 years later!

[Joon Seo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned how to count to five and say the alphabets!! Thank you Elmo!!1

[Mackenzie]

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