Underpants

So if you want Captain Underpants you look under "C" and not "P" for Dav Pilkey; if you want the Magic Treehouse books you look under "M" and not "O" for Mary Pope Osborne.

Speaking as one old fart to another Roger Sutton 2009

And on a pedagogical note, I have seen reluctant readers turned around by Captain Underpants -- because of the comics.

Stinky 2009

Barnett said at one point that humorous writers are "so obviously seeking the approval of the audience," which makes sense if you consider how well funny books have done commercially from Dav Pilkey's "Captain Underpants" to the current bestseller "It's a Book" by Lane Smith (who also illustrated Scieszka's "Stinky Cheese Man").

Sammy Perlmutter: Jon Scieszka At The Brooklyn Book Festival: How Valuable Is 'Funny' For Kids? Sammy Perlmutter 2010

January 19th, 2009 at 10: 53 am gekko will soon be back explaining that the underpants gnomes deserve to be compensated at fair value for the underpants they appropriated, lest it undermine shareholder confidence in Underpants Gnomes, Inc.

Matthew Yglesias » The Grain 2009

"If they were throwing out 'Captain Underpants' I'd understand, but not 'Leaves of Grass.'" hmm I think i have said those very same words. at

crazy days 2008

And while The Adventures of Captain Underpants (a best seller and definitely science fiction in my book) is written at a 3 year old's level, a lot of what gets classified by publishers and bookstores as YA is simply that: their classification of a book that they think would see to Young Adults.

Hey! What's Your Beef with Young Adult SF/F? 2008

Underpants is what adult prudes call their giant cotton underwear or what pre-pubescent children wear.

I say pyjama… 2008

Randall Jarrell of Oni Press agreed, pointing out that readers could buy a 200-page Captain Underpants chapter book for $4.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

I can't think of any positive dumb ones -- but a case could be made for the Captain Underpants series.

If You Only Knew the Power of the Dumb Side.... 2008

Don't tell that to my 6 year old who wanted to learn to read so bad just so he could read the Captain Underpants books to his 3 year old brother.

If You Only Knew the Power of the Dumb Side.... 2008