The Exciting Adventures of Super Grover The Exciting Adventures of Super Grover is a 1978 " Sesame Street " storybook featuring Super Grover . Super Grover and the Speeding Sled . Super Grover tries to save Rhonda Sue Bissey , a little girl sledding down a steep hill . Rhonda appears to be on a collision course with a bunch of trees . He attempts to do so by using a makeshift stop sign , building a big wall out of snow , and hanging on a tree branch to catch Rhonda as she goes by . Ultimately , the girl notices the trees and slows down herself . She has enjoyed the ride so much she wants to go again , and asks Super Grover to join her , whom promptly faints . The Origins of Super Grover . An Anything Muppet father reads a story to his kids about Super Grover ' s origins . Grover ' s mom made him a superhero costume for Halloween . He demonstrates his super powers , such as the ability to fly ( his " super flying " ) , X - ray vision , super strength , super breath , and even super hearing and super smell ! Also appearing in this story are Ernie , Bert , Betty Lou , Roosevelt Franklin , Oscar the Grouch , Big Bird , and Mr . Hooper . The story closes with a warning from Super Grover that the young readers should not attempt the stunts that Super Grover has done , including flying . Super Grover and the Three Bears . At school , Grover sees the school play of " Goldilocks and the Three Bears , " with Prairie Dawn in the lead role of Goldilocks . But when the three bears enter , portrayed by Bert , Ernie and Herry Monster , Grover becomes his superhero alter - ego ( having brought his costume in his lunch box ) , mistaking the actors for real bears and thinking Prairie is in danger , and delivers the " bears " to a zoo and ruins the play , all because he didn ' t understand that a play is " just pretend " . Super Grover Meets Hot Fudge Man : A Short but Sweet Story . Written and illustrated in a comic format similar to classic superhero comic books , Super Grover ' s old arch nemesis Hot - Fudge Man has returned to Sesame Street to wreak havoc by dumping gallons of hot fudge all over everything in its path , hoping to cover the city in one big gooey mess . After changing into his costume in the telephone booth , Super Grover arrives on the scene and notices that Hot - Fudge Man is about to pour the goop onto a schoolyard full of little children . Luckily , Super Grover buys the kids ice cream from a nearby vendor , and the kids use the hot fudge as a topping . Super Grover once again saves the day , until the vending lady tells him that he owes her $ 148 . 79 for all the ice cream and realizes that he left his wallet in the telephone booth . I Felt Like a 98oz . Weakling , says Betty Lou . In this one - page comic - advertisement parodying the old Charles Atlas comic ads , Betty Lou tells the reader that every time she goes to the beach , she gets sand kicked in her face by a bully . When she goes home , she looks for a " Herry Hercules " ad that is in one of her Super Grover comic books . The ad states that if she wants to get much bigger and stronger , she can build up her muscles by taking the exercise course . Betty Lou , on the other end , would rather go outside and play football . When she returns to the beach , she gets sand kicked in her face again . But this time , she confronts the bully and tells him to stop doing it , to which he apologizes , unaware of what he had done before . In the closing statement , the reader is told that if a bully tries to kick sand in their faces , just tell that person it makes you mad and that you don ' t like it . The Hole Story or Gone Fishing . The final story has Grover and his friends Ernie , Bert , Herry Monster , Cookie Monster , Big Bird and Betty Lou fishing together . But when the boat starts springing leaks , Grover can ' t find a telephone booth to change into his Super Grover outfit ( which he had packed in his fishing creel ) , and the others are oblivious to this incident , so he must try to stop the leaks by plugging them himself . But then he catches a big fish , which pulls him underwater . There , he finds a discarded telephone booth under the sea , become Super Grover , and saves the boat by carrying it in mid - air .