NEW YORK (Reuters) - Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who brought boyish vulnerability to Big Bird, the towering yellow-plumed character, during 50 years on the groundbreaking children's television show ...

Woodstock may be the name of the bird in the “Peanuts” comic strip, but the big bird in Woodstock, Connecticut is Caroll Spinney. Spinney was the gentle, expressive puppeteer who embodied Big Bird on ...

This molded plastic Big Bird finger puppet is one of a set of licensed Sesame Street toys made in the 1980s to capitalize on the popularity of the children’s television series, especially its Muppet ...

Certainly “The Lion King” with all its puppets and mask work might seem like an overly ambitious project for the small New Albany private school that serves students with learning disabilities, ...

'Big Bird in Space' sounds like a regular Sesame Street episode, but fiction nearly became reality when the puppet was invited to go up in space. However, the adventure for everybody's favourite ...