Oscar's Book



 Oscar 's Book is a Sesame Street book featuring Oscar the Grouch. Oscar informs the reader, "This is my book, &  I  don't want you to read it." Oscar speaks directly to the reader in word balloons, comic book-style.

Bothered by the reader's attention, he decides to move out of his trash can, & let somebody else move in. He puts on a blonde curly wig, & pretends to be " Melody ", a new little girl who lives on Sesame Street. But when Big Bird sees "Melody", he invites everyone to meet their new neighbor, & Oscar  quits the charade.

Frustrated, Oscar  hides in a pyramid of  trash cans, but he can still be seen in his  trash can. He then transforms his trash can  into a "superduper Grouch rocket balloon", which floats him high up into the sky. A bird pops the balloon, & he falls back to the ground.

At the end of the book, Oscar  realizes that the reader is going to go away, & he'll have nobody to yell at & complain to anymore. He tells the reader to come back: "You really make me  mad!"

Oscar speaks directly to the reader in word balloons, comic book-style. This style was used in a number of Sesame books in the 1970s & early 1980s, including The Monster at the End of This Book (1971), Grover & the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum (1974), Would You Like to Play Hide & Seek in This Book With Lovable, Furry Old Grover ?, Big Bird 's Red Book (1977), & Lovable Furry Old Grover 's Resting Places (1984).