The Sesame Street library. Volume 13, Featuring the number 13 : with Jim Henson's muppets

The Sesame Street Library Volume 13 featuring the number 13Stories Included:Bert and Ernie and the Great Race (art: Marc Nadel)Photo: Sherlock HemlockThe Case of the Missing Hat - Sherlock Hemlock and a crying bearThe Count's Counting PageWith Love from Me to You - Grover (art: Larry Di Fiori)The Sky's the Limit - Super Grover, Santa Claus, a spaceship, the Sun and a satellite in the sky (art: Michael J. Smollin)Coming & Going (Photo: Big Bird and Buffy, front and rear)(photo: Richard Hutchings)Find 13 Number 13's - The Count (art: Nadel)Cookie's Cooking! recipe (art: Robert Dennis)Ernie's Balloons (with Maria, Bert, Cookie Monster and Big Bird) (art: Smollin)What is a Blimp? - Big Bird (art: R. Brown)13 Presents - The Count (art: Bill Basso)Betty Lou Lends a Hand - Big Bird, Rodeo Rosie, Herry, Prairie Dawn, Farley, Roosevelt Franklin, Cookie Monster, Ernie, Bert, Sherlock Hemlock and Grover(First published: The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook)(writer: Emily Perl Kingsley; art: Tom Cooke)How Do Birds Learn to Fly? - Big Bird with three "Little Birds" (art: Smollin)The Juggler - Grover13 Rabbits - The Count (art: Ruth Marten)It's Play-Day! - Ernie, Betty Lou, Grover, Oscar and Big Bird (art: Thomas Herbert)2-page spread: 13 Eggs (art: Ivan Chermayeff}Bert and Ernie Photo: Bedtime Story (photo: Douglas Kelley)Bookend: Ernie and BertThe Sesame Street Library is a 15-volume set of books that was published by Funk & Wagnalls between 1978 and 1979. Consisting of 40 pages filled with illustrated stories by various artists, each entry in the set followed the same basic format. Approximately a dozen writers contributed material either adapted from episodic Sesame Street, pulled out of another stand-alone book, or created exclusively for this set.The first 12 volumes featured letters of the alphabet and were likely done together as a set. They each contained chapters from The Sesame Street Storybook, The Sesame Street 1, 2, 3 Storybook, The Sesame Street ABC Storybook, Big Bird's Busy Book, The Sesame Street Family Album, and The Sesame Street 1977 Calendar. The last three volumes were done in 1979, possibly as a supplement to the first 12 published the previous year. Their format is slightly different, and they don't feature nearly as many contributing writers. Pages are more straightforward with "lesson plans" and "exercises," resembling the content found in Sesame Street Magazine.All of the covers are illustrated by Joe Mathieu, and the books feature his artwork as well as that of Michael Frith. Short stories and a variety of learning activities focusing on colors, shapes and the number thirteen, with Cookie Monster's recipe for peanut butter, oatmeal raisin cookies. Hardcover Funk & Wagnalls (1979) 0834300214 978-0834300217 Product 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches Shipping 11.2 ounces