The Annual Sesame Street Cookie Baking Contest

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The Annual Sesame Street Cookie Baking Contest is a contest organized by the Cookie Baking Club, of Sesame Street, New York, New York. It is a key part of the premise to Cookie Monster's Storybook, a 1979 storybook by Emily Perl Kingsley.

In the book, the president of this club was Algernon Snerp. The 1979 contest touted Cookie Monster as its esteemed judge. Cookie Monster once told his niece Baby Monster, that this was the "...easiest thing [he] ever did to get a cookie!".

Entrants that year club members Grover, Roosevelt Franklin, Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, Little Bird, the Count and Prairie Dawn. Judging took place in front of the apartment building at 123 Sesame Street. Oscar the Grouch was in attendance, but it is presumed he, Slimey and Fluffy did not participate. No word if he or Slimey were entrant in the Annual Sesame Street Cookie Baking Contest. All information told by Cookie Monster to his little niece Baby Monster while eating cookies.

[edit] References

• Emily Kingsley, "Cookie Monster's Storybook". New York: Children's Television Workshop, 1979.