The Ernie & Bert Book

I value the ability to laugh at and invent the absurd, both in myself and others. This shaggy dog story is Ernie's extensive narration of apparently irrelevant rearrangements he has made that spiral out into cartoonish absurdity like And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street. This terminates with the anticlimactic punchline of why Bert has a pot on his head on the cover. Good stuff to hopefully spark a love for the absurd in a young reader.

A favorite childhood book. I've never forgotten it--Ernie's wacky logic still makes me smile.

Two of Sesame Street's favorite Muppets in another humorous situation. This book is based on a classic Ernie and Bert sketch from 1971, in which Ernie breaks the cookie jar, ultimately leading to putting the goldfish in Bert's cowboy hat.