Big Bird StoryMagic was a set of books, tapes and animated dolls created by in 1986. Caroll Spinney and Frank Oz recorded the voices of Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster, reading a set of Sesame Street storybooks. The Big Bird StoryMagic doll had a tape player in his back; when one of the tapes was played inside him, his eyes and beak would move, as if he were telling the story. Some of the StoryMagic books were adaptations of previously released storybooks; others were original to the series.