Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Bedtime Storybook by Tony Geiss Tony Geiss. Tony Geiss (November 16, 1924 - January 21, 2011) was a staff writer and songwriter for Sesame Street and related productions, often teamed with . Geiss conceptualized the Honkers (based on his own childhood habit of honking his nose) [1] and Abby Cadabby. [2] Contents. Geiss' early TV career was spent in London scripting The David Frost Show , and first joined Children's Television Workshop as a writer on the health series Feelin' Good . He also scripted television specials and revues for the likes of Dick Cavett and Bill Cosby. In the 1980s, after scripting Follow That Bird as his cinematic debut, Geiss and Freudberg co-wrote the animated features and The Land Before Time . He was also credited as head writer for several Sesame Street home videos. Geiss' father Anthony Geiss was a painter and an animator, while mother Marjorie Thirer was a press agent. Geiss grew up in Greenwich Village, spending two years as a radar technician for the US Navy, before attending Cornell University from 1943 to 1946. He began acting in theatre productions in his freshman year, and met his wife Phyllis Eisen on campus. ISBN 13: 9780394838434. The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook: Featuring Jim Henson Muppets. Tony Geiss. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. A collection of 12 read-aloud stories featuring the Sesame Street Muppets. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Shipping: FREE Within U.S.A. Customers who bought this item also bought. Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace. 1. The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook: Featuring Jim Henson Muppets. Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Tom Cooke (illustrator). Brand New!. Seller Inventory # VIB0394838432. 2. The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook: Featuring Jim Henson Muppets. Book Description Condition: new. Tom Cooke (illustrator). 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Speaking of which, my favorite story here from when I was wee was "Grover, Messenger of Love", illustrated by the aforementioned Joe, and it still just kills me with silly. Part Romeo and Juliet . part The Fantasticks . and ALL furry, lovable 'ole Grover. Grover was skipping happily down the lane, strumming his lute, when he heard the sound of someone crying. It was a beautiful princess weeping by her garden wall. "Do not cry, beautiful princess. I, Grover, will play you a happy tune on my cute little lute," he said. "It won't help," she wailed. "I am crying because of this stupid wall." I can't imagine a Sesame Street book using the word "stupid" nowadays, but c'est la vie. So yeah, said stupid wall keeps the lovely Lucretia from her handsome Lorenzo and it's up to Grover to transport messages and gifts from one side of the wall to the other till he is run positively ragged. Good fun. In these pages you'll also find three stories where Oscar has a nightmare that flowers cover his trash can and all the world is clean; Cookie has a bad dream where cookies don't exist; and Count dreams he's forgotten how to count. Not sure what's up with the nightmare theme and how that's supposed to help kids go to sleep but anyways. There's also a story about Ernie losing his rubber duckie, Betty Lou lending a hand, Grover and his twenty-six scoops of ice cream, and my other favorite, "Silly Annabelle" about a little girl who tames a dragon through song. I've always liked these books with a bunch of different artistic takes and styles on the same characters. Great time capsule. Tony Geiss. Tony Geiss is a producer, staff writer, executive producer and songwriter of Sesame Street , Madeline and related productions, he teams up with Judy Freudberg. Geiss conceptualized the Honkers (based on his own childhood habit of honking noses), Abby Cadabby and Ken Strawberry. Geiss' early TV career was spend in London scripting The David Frost Show and first joined Children's Television Workshop as a writer on the health series Feelin' Good. He also scripted television specials and revues for the likes of Dick Cavett and Bill Cosby. In the 1980s, after scripting Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird as his cinematic debut, Geiss and Freudberg co-wrote the Academy Award-winning Don Bluth Animated features An American Tail and The Land Before Time . Freudberg and Geiss also wrote the Screenplay for Madeline: Lost in Paris , again with Don Bluth. They won Academy Award categories include Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song and Best Picture, his first Academy Award was for Don't Eat the Pictures. He is also credited as head writer of for several Sesame Street home videos and Madeline . His Father Anthony Geiss was a painter and an animator, while his Mother Marjorie Thirer was a press agent and Composer. Geiss grew up in Greenwich Village, spending two years as a rardar technician for the US Navy, before attending Cornell University from 1943 to 1946. He began acting in theater productions in his freshman years. His Wife Phyllis Eisen was met on Campus. They gave birth to 12 Children, 6 Girls and 6 Boys. He began writing at Disney in Movies like Song of the South , Lady and the Tramp , The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland . He also began composing and songwriting in Alice in Wonderland , Mary Poppins and Lady and the Tramp . The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook by Tony Geiss. Harcourt, Brace & World, INC., 1955. With The Day the Cow Sneezed on the cusp of a reprint (it releases September 1) and all the amazing prints that are being shilled on his estate's Etsy page, I figured I'd better keep digging to make sure I'd covered all the Flora backlist in our collection. That said, meet one of my husband's favorite children's books. He grew up in San Antonio, where Mexican culture thrives north of the border, so the book has a special place in his heart. Utilizing loads of words in Spanish, it's the story of a family of firework makers who are commissioned to make the "very tallest, the every widest, and the very finest firework castle ever made by mortal man." It must make more noise than thunder; more smoke than a volcano; and throw off more sparks than there are stars in heaven, to celebrate the birthday of Santiago our beloved patron saint. An old Mexican tradition, I saw one of these castillos in San Miguel a few years back, but it wasn't quite as spectacular as the one depicted on these pages. Here, we follow Pepito, the small son in the family as he learns the trade. making the paper mache animals and skeletons, constructing the bamboo structure, and tying the fuses. But it would not be a true Flora without some flaming mishap and a botched robbery. In the end, Pepito comes of age and saves the day, in a book that is as spiritedly illustrated as it is fun to read. Flora was a madman and a genius. Any of his books I'd trade my left arm for. (Notice I said, left, not right. A girl's gotta have some shame.) If you feel like getting a copy for your family, stay away from the 1994 reprint. Some of the original character gets lost in translation. And to see some full page spreads, head on over to the Curious Pages. Great Monday Give: Baby Animals. Good Monday everyone. In case anyone was wondering how my son's first week of school went, ponder no further. Or, if you're just here for the free stuff, read on. Yes, it's Monday again. The day when I walk to our bookshelves and pluck a vintage book from our collection to gift to one lucky reader. Today's free thing is a vintage copy of the Gyo Fujikawa board book classic, Baby Animals . To be entered to win this sweet book, all you have to do is comment on this post by Sunday, September 5th (September? ACK!) at 11:59 PM. A winner will be randomly selected and announced the next morning. That said, the winner of last week's give of her very own copy of We Like Kindergarten is GinaChick. Congrats and send me your info to webe(at)soon.com. On an end note, remember that the second Eyewitness Reports charity auction starts later on this morning featuring original art from famous and infamous children's book artists. Proceeds benefit 826LA, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit writing and tutoring center fronted by a fully-functioning convenience store for time travelers. I almost won the Mo Willems in the first auction, but then my wallet got the best of me! Maybe I'll get lucky and score some Dan Yaccarino this time. Oh, too. here's me on ohdeeoh. Friday, August 27, 2010. Mini Scholastic Books. Time for Dirty Old Paperback Friday. Ha! Just kidding. But seriously, who doesn't remember these half-size Scholastic books from way back when. (Do they still make them?) Ahhhh, back-to-school memories. Check it out and happy Friday kids! pictures by Ed Arno, 1967. pictures by Harvey Weiss, 1963. pictures by Sylvie Selig, 1967. Thursday, August 26, 2010. The Mouse and the Lion. pictures by Leonard Weisgard Parents' Magazine Press, 1962. Leonard Weisgard is one of those illustrators we tend to take for granted at our house. Maybe it's the fact that so many of his books are two-tone. Maybe it's that there's just just so many of them. But every once in a while, one of his books floats to the top of the heap and I'm once again reminded how awesome he is. Here, teamed up with the fabulous Titus. his stencils and chalk and muted colors fit nicely in a world where big is small and small is big. When two creatures (lion and mouse respectively) decide they'd love to visit the land of people, a meddling fairy decides that the mouse would be too afraid of towering people and that people would run screaming from a ferocious lion. Tears rushed to her eyes at the terrible thought. "How can I help these helpless people?" she asked herself, and the answer game at once. Waving her wand in the air, she whispered, "In the eyes of all people who look upon him, this lion will appear smaller than the smallest mouse!" Then her eyes twinkled. "There'll be a mixup today!" And away the fairy flew--right out of this book! Yeah. Right out of this book and a world of trouble. This storybook switcheroo has everyone confused. The lion is totally misunderstood. "Girls!, girls! Look at the teeny weeny lion!" "Isn't he precious!" said another. "The little doll! I'd like to do his hair up in curlers, and dress him in pink pajamas and pink hairbows, and wheel him around in my best doll carriage. . and as for the mouse. "EE-EE-EE-YOW! IT'S ALIVE! MOUSE MONSTER! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES !" Wednesday, August 25, 2010. Update Wednesday: The Last of the Wizards. I recently got my hands on a first edition with the book jacket intact, so I figure it's time for an update. Welcome to Update Wednesday, the day when I reach back into the achives and update a post from back when I was too lazy to scan more than one picture. BEHOLD in all its glory, The Last of the Wizards by Rona Jaffe. Oh, and check out my first-day-of-school vintage book list on Flashlight Worthy. The Faber and Faber Flickr Archives. Got an e-mail this morning from Gemma at Faber and Faber in the UK alerting me to her Flickr page featuring vintage book jacket scans from the FF archives. WOW and DROOL and YUM and OH MY GOODNESS, all at the same time. Check out the awesomeness for yourself! (Here's a direct link to just the kids' books. TO DIE!) Tuesday, August 24, 2010. The Small Seabird. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. Again, here is a book and an author I know nothing about, but the boy and I get lost in the bold, primary colors every time. Not to mention a dear story about being swept up in the wind and lost from home. One dark night a wind blew a small seabird far, far inland over the hills and mountains and thick green forest. In the morning, when he looked around, he became a little frightened. He knew that he was lost. In every direction there was something new and different. There was nothing that even looked like the sea. Our funny little three-toed friend spends the rest of the story trying to find his way home again, and meets a slew of curious creatures along the way. It's not until they smell the sea air on the wind that they figure out, sometimes the best way to get home again is to let yourself go. Literally. If anyone knows anything about this author, fill me in. The drawings are absolutely enchanting. Monday, August 23, 2010. Eyewitness Reports. Anyone looking for early Christmas presents for me should head on over to eBay and select anything from the Eyewitness Reports auction to benefit 826LA, a free literacy and writing center that was started by author Dave Eggers in San Francisco and then spun off in New York; Chicago; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Seattle; and Boston. The Los Angeles version is fronted and funded with the help of a convenience store for time- travelers. (I always stop off at the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. when I'm in the neighborhood.) There will be two online auctions featuring artwork from 37 children's book illustrators inspired by the picture book Oh No! (Or how My Science Project Destroyed the World) , written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Dan Santat. The first auction runs from today until the 27th, then the next, the 30th - 3rd. Just in case you have trouble deciding which one I'd like best, I'll take this one, and this one. and um, this one. I'm not picky. Great Monday Give: We Like Kindergarten. First day of school. ahhh. To celebrate my son's massive milestone today, I'll be passing our copy of the Wilkin classic We Like Kindergarten down to one of you readers, so hopefully it will help your child move to the next level some day. (I even updated my two-year-old post with some new scans.) To be entered to win, simply comment on this post between now and Sunday, August 29 at 11:49 PM. A randomly selected winner will be announced the following day. As for the winner of Flix , that little treat goes to AStarrA. Congrats and send me your info to. webe(at)soon(dot)com. (And for those of you wondering, I only cried once. OK, twice, tops.) Friday, August 20, 2010. Lucille. Harper and Row, 1964. Sorry I've been MIA, but man, do you know how hard it is to find shoes for boys that are not horrifically ugly? I try and be thrifty and go everywhere and look at everything that's available, only to end up back at Whole Earth Provision shelling out $40-plus for shoes the boy will outgrow in a few months. That said, though it stings at first, it's always the right decision in the end to have cute, licensed character-free, eco-happy shoes to style in. Aren't they adorable? But we aren't here to talk about back-to-school or shoes. we're here to talk about books, and since my son and I will be attending the evening performance of A Year with Frog and Toad , I figured today was a good day to reach into the Lobel archives and give the man some always-deserved love. Here we find a workhorse, Lucille, who is tired of being "dull and dirty". that is, until one day, when the farmer's wife takes her under her wing. and while we're on shoes. "Tomorrow we are going shopping in town," she says. Lucille takes the farmer and his wife to town. She sees a hat with pink roses in a store window. The farmer's wife buys the hat for Lucille. She sees many shiny shoes in a store window. The farmer's wife buys four shiny shoes for Lucille. Pretty soon Lucille is all dolled up and far too fancy to work in the fields. But a life of skirts and tea parties and ladylike manners is not always what it's cracked up to be in this classic tale of the grass-is-always-greener. Now that the boy is reading in earnest, I've been clinging to these wonderful "An I Can Read Books" more than ever. The older ones are the perfect, hardcover size and the stories and illustrations almost always delightful. Kindergarten starts Monday and the boy's teacher has no idea of the tidal wave of books that are about to monsoon upon her. This one, however, I'm keeping for us. Wednesday, August 18, 2010. The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook. Yes, I am going to Sesame Street again, only because a) I always get so many positive responses to these old Muppet books and b) it's Wednesday and we're a mere five days away from kindergarten and less than 24 hours away from meet-the-teacher and c) well, I just feel like it, so bear with me. When has Joe Mathieu ever failed to get us through a hump-day, huh? Speaking of which, my favorite story here from when I was wee was "Grover, Messenger of Love", illustrated by the aforementioned Joe, and it still just kills me with silly. Part Romeo and Juliet . part The Fantasticks . and ALL furry, lovable 'ole Grover. Grover was skipping happily down the lane, strumming his lute, when he heard the sound of someone crying. It was a beautiful princess weeping by her garden wall. "Do not cry, beautiful princess. I, Grover, will play you a happy tune on my cute little lute," he said. "It won't help," she wailed. "I am crying because of this stupid wall." I can't imagine a Sesame Street book using the word "stupid" nowadays, but c'est la vie. So yeah, said stupid wall keeps the lovely Lucretia from her handsome Lorenzo and it's up to Grover to transport messages and gifts from one side of the wall to the other till he is run positively ragged. Good fun. In these pages you'll also find three stories where Oscar has a nightmare that flowers cover his trash can and all the world is clean; Cookie has a bad dream where cookies don't exist; and Count dreams he's forgotten how to count. Not sure what's up with the nightmare theme and how that's supposed to help kids go to sleep but anyways. There's also a story about Ernie losing his rubber duckie, Betty Lou lending a hand, Grover and his twenty-six scoops of ice cream, and my other favorite, "Silly Annabelle" about a little girl who tames a dragon through song. I've always liked these books with a bunch of different artistic takes and styles on the same characters. Great time capsule.