Big Bird: he’s one of Western pop culture’s most recognisable characters, a feathered totem of everything good, pure, and innocent in the world. But when he isn’t learning the ways of life alongside kids in Sesame Street, he’s just plain old Caroll Spinney. The man inside the suit is just as kind, caring and thoughtful as the naive avian he depicts, and it turns out the story of his life is good enough to tell in I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story.

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