Big Bird Brings Spring to Sesame Street

Big Bird Brings Spring to Sesame Street Author Lauren Collier Swindler Illustrator Marsha Winborn a Little Golden Book / a Sesame Street - Golden Press Book published by Western Publishing Co. #108-63 copyright 1985 by Children's Television Workshop Hardcover 6.55 x 8 inches Big Bird is a Muppet character designed by Jim Henson and built by Kermit Love for the long-running children's television show Sesame Street. An eight-foot two-inch (249 cm) tall bright yellow anthropomorphic bird, he can roller skate, ice skate, dance, swim, sing, write poetry, draw, and ride a unicycle. Despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as one long word, pondering what it could mean. He would refer to grocer Mr. Hooper as "Mr. Looper", among other mispronunciations. He lives in a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone and right next to Oscar the Grouch's trash can. He also has a teddy bear named Radar. In Season 46, Big Bird's large nest is now sitting within a small, furnished maple tree, and is no longer hidden by used construction doors. Caroll Spinney performed Big Bird from 1969 to 2018. Matt Vogel began as an understudy in 1996 before becoming the character's full-time performer in 2018. In 2000, Big Bird was named a Living Legend by the United States Library of Congress.