A Grouch's Christmas



A Grouch 's Christ mas is a 1999 Sesame Street storybook featuring  Oscar the Grouch.

On the day before Christ mas, Elmo helps his mother bake Christ mas cookies. Going outside to build a snowmonster, Elmo sees his friends preparing for the holiday.

Bert & Ernie carry home a Christ mas tree. Big Bird decorates his nest, & Luis decorates the Fix-It Shop. Count von Count counts snowflakes. Herry Monster dresses as Santa Claus, & rings a bell to help collect toys & food for needy families, to whom he & Grover are going to deliver the food & toys.

Elmo is shocked to discover that Oscar the Grouch  hates Christ mas, calling it "the worst time of the year for  Grouches ". Elmo decides that he'll teach Oscar  to like Christ mas. He enlists the help of his friends, & his mother helps him make special cookies for Oscar.

The group assembles at Oscar 's  trash can. Bert & Ernie bring Oscar  a bedraggled little tree, decorated with tin cans & bits of orange peel. Big Bird says to Oscar  that the next day his Granny Bird is coming to visit. He then suggests that Oscar  have  Grundgetta  come to visit. Herry asks Oscar  if he has anything that he's willing to donate to needy families, so  Oscar  gives him a red & white striped tie -- it's too clean & doesn't even have 1 moth hole in it & he really wouldn't want  Grundgetta  to see it. The Count counts Oscar 's friends, & Elmo gives  Oscar  his special creation -- a dozen sardine cookies with chocolate icing.

Won over by the holiday spirit, Oscar  joins in as the friends sing Christ mas carols.

Other versions
The book was reprinted in 1994 by Merrigold Press & again in 2005 by Dalmatian Press as Elmo 's Delicious Christ mas. It was reprinted again in 2007, with altered credits: "Written by Michaela Muntean & Elizabeth Clasing". It was also released as a book and tape set, first from Golden, & then from Sony Wonder.