Today is the 54th birthday for Sesame Street. I was (*cough*) two years old (*cough*) when it debuted and watched it all through my early childhood. It truly is an amazing success story on using television for education. Though I'm still annoyed that Grover was all but supplanted by that annoying upstart Elmo.

This was one of my favorite books as a kid.

And of course the greatest superhero in the history of superheroes: Super Grover!