Favorite Books: Captain Underpants

Chris' favorite book series right now is "Captain Underpants"
For those of you who don't know about Dave Pilkey and his children's books, this is really boy humor for grades 2 thru 4 or so. They use words like, well, underpants.

"Dav Pilkey originally got the idea of Captain Underpants back when he was in the second grade. Pilkey says during an interview:

'I got the idea when I was a second grader at St. John's Lutheran School in Elyria, Ohio. My teacher used the word "underpants" in class one day and everyone started laughing. She got mad and told us that underwear was not funny. We all laughed harder. Usually, when the class cracked up, it was because of something I had said or done. But our teacher had never made everybody laugh so hard before. I realized then that the word "underpants" was a very funny word. On the school bus home that day, I was making up a story about underwear and some younger kids in the seat behind me were laughing so hard, they almost fell on the floor. The next day, while sitting in the hallway — I spent lots of time in the hallway because I often misbehaved in class — I invented a superhero named Captain Underpants.'"

There are 4 books in the set we have, each about 130 pages long. No, you can't just read a few pages, you have to read ALL of them in each sitting. Some of the pages are comic-book style, but they have to look at the pictures to watch the story progress.

(Laughing)...and now I have to wonder what the imagination of these books will trigger in the creative mind of our little guy...

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