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 snow monster, Elmo sees his friends preparing for the holi day.

Bert & Ernie carry a huge Christ mas tree back home. BIG BIRD decorates his nest, & Luis decorates the Fix - It Shop. Count von Count Counts snow flakes. Herry Monster dresses a s San ta Cla u s, & rings a bell to help collect toys & food for needy fami lies , to whom he & Grover are going to deliver t he food & toy s.

Elmo is shocked to learn that  OSCAR THE GROUCH  hate s Christ mas, calling i t " the worst time of the year for  GROUCHES  ". Elmo decides that he ' ll teach  OSCAR  to like Christ mas. He enlist s the help of his friends, & his mother helps him make special cookie s f or  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 suggest s that  OSCAR  have  GRUNDGETTA  come to visit. Herry ask s  OSCAR  if he  has any thing that  he  ' s willing to donate to need y fami lies, so  OSCAR  give s him a red & white stripe d tie - - it ' s too clean & doesn ' t even have 1 moth hole in i t &  he  really wouldn ' t want  GRUNDGETTA  to see it. The Count Counts  OSCAR  ' s friends while Elmo give s  OSCAR  his special creation - - a dozen sardine cookies with chocolate icing.

Won over by the hol i day s p i r i t,  OSCAR  joins in as the friends sing Christ mas carol s.

Other versions
The book was reprinted in 1994 by Merri gold Press & again in 2005 by Dalma tian 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 release d as a book & tape set, 1 st from Golden , & then from Sony Wonder.