![]() ![]() Little Bird, Bert, Ernie, Grover and Cookie Monster all come to visit him. Though Big Bird claims he isn't really sick, he then starts sneezing and really does become sick from catching the cold. Little Bird won't let him though- because he's "sick". Ernie comes by later to ask him to play because he feels better. Little Bird immediately offers to stay with him and take care of him. Little Bird comes by to visit then and Big Bird tells him he's sick. Big Bird then decides to pretend he's sick so everyone will cater to him. Betty Lou comes by and lets Big Bird know that Ernie's sick with a cold and they go visit him. Big Bird gets upset and thinks everyone cares about Ernie and not about him. Not Cookie Monster, because he's taking cookies to Ernie. Not Grover, because he's taking a truck to Ernie. Not Bert, because Ernie's waiting for him. Story- "Nobody Cares About Me" (written by Sarah Roberts and Illustrated by Joe Mathieu)īig Bird wants someone to play with him but no one will. And a Biblical lesson too- "Don't let the sun go down in your anger." (Ephesians 4:26))Ģnd. (And so we learn a good lesson about communication and friendship. But this time Bert just smiles and says they'll clean it up in the morning and they go to bed. Of course, Ernie winds up spilling all his toys from his suitcase all over the floor- and apologizes for making a mess again. Bert apologizes for yelling and tells him to come back home. At this point, Bert is frantically looking for Ernie and goes from Big Bird to Grover and finally finds him by Oscar's trash can. He goes from friend to friend looking for a place to stay- Big Bird's nest to Grover's house to Oscar's trash can! He finally sits by Oscar's trash can and falls asleep. He even says he wished he lived by himself!Įrnie decides Bert doesn't want him there anymore and runs away. Plot- Bert and Ernie are best friends, but Bert gets upset at the mess Ernie makes in their apartment. Story- "Ernie's Big Mess" (written by Sarah Roberts and Illustrated by Joe Mathieu) (Note- Big Bird refers to himself in the first person- as "I", where as in the book, it would be in the third person- "Big Bird said, etc.") (Also, I'm pretty sure it's him doing the voices for everyone in the stories.interesting to hear his imitations of other characters)Īll of these "Start-to-Read" videos start with Big Bird's voice singing the "Start-to-Read" intro song.and on screen we see characters show up on the endsheets used in many familiar Sesame Street story books I remember reading as a kid in the 1980s.ġst. The video is approximately 30 minutes long- but it feels like it's much shorter because the picture books fly by pretty fast.Īnyway- this is a bit different kind of video- Carroll Spinney is on board as Big Bird, and he narrates three picture books, with the pages from the book displayed for children to read along with. It's a 1987 video- produced by Random House Video (as opposed to SonyWonder, who did so many of the other SS videos- and that's recently changed by the way. Here's my review of the Sesame Street Start-to-Read video- "Ernie's Big Mess and other Stories". ![]()
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