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Two decades ago, few could have guessed that an animated, talking aquatic sponge would be the central figure of one of the funniest, strangest, and most influential children's shows on television. The late Stephen Hillenburg unleashed his zany undersea world … #BestPlantHooks

I am a preschool teacher and mom to a rising kindergartner. I have read a lot of Dr. Seuss books and I am officially Seussed out! I understand that The Cat in the Hat was groundbreaking when it was first published in 1957 and that it was a welcome relief from… #BestPlantHooks

Its hard to know what would be a good place from which to imagine a future of bad smells and no privacy, deceit and propaganda, poverty and torture. Does a writer need to live in misery and ugliness to conjure up a dystopia? Apparently not. Wed been walking… #BestPlantHooks

One night, about 23 years ago, I watched a man named Beau Beau plant his feet, jut out his voluminously goateed chin, and trace a circle in the air with his finger. Immediately, the entire club — the Black Cat in Washington, DC — erupted into a massive circle… #BestPlantHooks

There are basking sharks in the upper layers of the water prehistoric things, nightmare-mouthed and harmless. Plankton-eaters, the way all seeming monsters are. They fill the coastal waters in the summertime, rising up to trawl the krill blooms. Puckered with… #BestPlantHooks