The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook

The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook is a Sesame Street book published in 1978 that includes twelve seperate stories involving the various Sesame Street muppets either in adventures or with their own problems once night time is upon them. Authors and illustrators of each story are different:
*"Grover, Messenger of Love": written by Patricia Thackray, illustrated by Joseph Mathieu - Grover is tasked at delivering messages and gifts over a wall to a young princess's crush on the other side until he gets tired and wants to go home...but not until she has him do one more errand for him.
*"The King and the Fireman": written by Jeffrey Moss, illustrated by Marc Nadel
*"Oscar Has a Bad Dream": written by Robert Oksner, illustrated by Tom Cooke - Oscar dreams that everything on Sesame Street is clean and sanitary and that nobody, not even any of his friends, does anything disgusting that he likes anymore.
*"Grover and the Twenty-Six Scoops": written by Patricia Thackray, illustrated by Marc Nadel. Betty Lou and her little brother, Herbie, come into Grover's ice cream parlor to order a cone. Betty Lou already knows what she wants; a single scoop of vanilla (ironically the only normal flavor in the entire shop), but Herbie is undecided, so Grover goes right down the line telling him each flavor (each one starts with a letter of the alphabet, hence 26 scoops), whilst putting a scoop of it on top of a cone. In the end Herbie is still undecided, but finally just takes a scoop of vanilla as well. (Neither decision sat well with Grover.)
*"Silly Annabelle": written by David Korr, illustrated by A. Delaney
*"Betty Lou Lends a Hand": written by Emily Perl Kingsley, illustrated by Tom Cooke - Bert has an envelope with a surprise in it (a couple of the others joke it might be another paper clip or pictures of his pigeons) but before it could be opened it's blown out of his hand and lands on the other side of a picket fence. After others try to use their strengths to get it back to no avail, Betty Lou realizes as the smallest, she has the ability to get her arm through a crack in the fence and get the envelope back. The envelope contained tickets to the circus for everybody.
*"Cookie Monster Has a Bad Dream": written by Robert Oksner, illustrated by Tom Cooke - Cookie Monster dreams that cookies don't exist and that reliable places that would have them (Hooper's Store, supermarket, bakery) not only don't have them but never heard of them. He eventually decides to invent the cookie, but before he could bite into his creation, he woke up.
*"Who Stole the Count's Thunder?": written by Tony Geiss, illustrated by Marc Nadel - The Count's thunder cloud that rumbles whenever he counts anything keeps disappearing and he has to chase it to find out who is stealing it. He eventually finds out it's The Amazing Mumford who is behind it with the argument that his counting and making it rumble is keeping him from sleeping. They do come up with a compromise that ends up working to both of their favors.
*"Grover's Bedtime Story": written by Emily Perl Kingsley, illustrated by A. Delaney - Prarie Dawn sleeps over at Grover's house one night, but confesses she cannot sleep unless someone tells her a bedtime story. She tries to get Grover to tell her one but he is unable to, so Prarie tells one to Grover to show him how to do it, but only succeeds in putting him to sleep. She seems to be stuck until Grover's mommy comes in to check on them and tells one to her.
*"The Case of the Mysterious Mud Puddle Monster": written by David Korr, illustrated by Tom Cooke
*"The Count Has a Bad Dream": written by Robert Oksner, illustrated by Marc Nadel - The Count dreams that no matter what he does he cannot count past 2.
*"Good Night, Rubber Duckie": written by Emily Perl Kingsley, illustrated by Joseph Mathieu - Bert and Ernie have extended family coming to visit first thing in the morning, so Ernie takes stock of his routine before going to bed and realizes his Rubber Duckie is missing. With the help of a reluctant Bert, he goes about tearing apart the house looking for it. When he is unsuccessful, he decides reluctantly to take Bert's advice to just sleep without it and they'll look for it in the morning, only to find out when he puts his head down on his pillow that Rubber Duckie was under it the whole time.

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