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 as San ta Cla us, & rings a bell to help collect toys & food for needy fami lies , to whom he & Grover are going to deliver the food & toys.

Elmo is shocked to learn that  OSCAR THE GROUCH  hates 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 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 fami lies, 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 while Elmo gives  Oscar  his special creation - - a dozen sardine cookies with chocolate icing.

Won over by the holi day spi rit,  OSCAR  joins in as the friends sing Christ mas carols.

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 released as a book & tape set, 1 st from Golden , & then from Sony Wonder.