The Adventures Of Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey

The Adventures Of Captain Underpants Book is a popular children’s book from the creative mind of Dav Pilkey and it is about the hilarious adventures of George and Harold as they try to trick their strict principal Mr. Krupp, but their trick ends up backfiring on them. The Adventures Of Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey is absolutely one of the funniest books ever created!!!

About The Adventures Of Captain Underpants Book

This The Adventures Of Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey was harmless elementary school fun, with a few winks and moments of absurdity that only an adult reader would likely get. Frankly it reminded me a lot of the style of humor employed in the cartoon “Phineas and Ferb”. N

“Tra-la-laaa!”

Man, I am going to be saying that throughout this review! Dav Pilkey has done a great job with both the illustrations and writing this book as they make this book full of pure hilarity and adventure! I love the way that Dav Pilkey writes this book in a sarcastic and humorous way as George and Harold are shown to be the greatest practical jokers in the history of all practical jokers as they are constantly pulling pranks on the school and somehow succeeding in their jokes. I really enjoyed the sarcastic humor in this book as it is smart and witty and it strongly reminded me of the humor in “The Stinky Cheeseman” as it plays a satire on the world of superheroes, except this time there is a superhero that runs around the city in his underwear! One of the most impressive characters in this book is Captain Underpants himself as he saves the world but saves it in his underwear! Captain Underpants sort of remind me of Quailman from the Nickelodeon show “Doug” as both characters saves the word in their underwear.

Dav Pilkey’s illustrations are truly hilarious and childish in this book as George and Harold always have mischievous looks on their faces. George is drawn as a child with a tie and a black flat top hair and Harold is drawn to have puffy hair, which makes the two characters look hilarious to children. The illustration that stood out the most for me was the illustration of Captain Underpants himself as he has a bald head and is shown wearing a red cape and is mostly shown in his underwear! Also, I like to point out that the illustrations are in black and white; however Dav Pilkey’s illustrations are so hilarious and childish that many children will overlook the black and white coloring.

Parents should know that this book was banned in many schools because it was considered insensitive and encourages children to disobey authority (I did not really understand the insensitivity part, but I did understand the part about disobeying authority). The main thing that parents should be concerned about is the crude humor in this book such as Harold and George using a fake doggy doo-doo to trick a villain and the cheerleaders being described as having mucus running down their noses after they were exposed to the pepper in their pom-poms and parents who do not approve of crude humor might want to wait until their children get older to enjoy this book. As for the banning, I honestly do not believe in banning books and I thought that this was an enjoyable book for children of all ages, but it was not meant to be an educational book. I think that if the content in this book is really offensive for educational classes, then teachers could use this book as a special treat for children to read if children did some good deeds or did their schoolwork, sort of like a reward for their efforts.

The Adventures Of Captain Underpants Book is truly a book that children of all ages can enjoy as it has great humor and spectacular characters and I think this book will be wonderful for children who love reading about superheroes and great humor! I would recommend this book to children ages five and up since the crude humor might be a bit too inappropriate for smaller children.

George and Harold are two 4th grade class clowns that created a comic strip company called “Treehouse Comix Inc.” where they would produce comics and sell them on the playground at school. The mean principle Mr. Krupp is hypnotized by the boys after being mean to them and turns into Captain Underpants, the super-hero from George and Harold’s comic books.

Critique: A. Ability to relate to students
B. The Adventures of Captain Underpants is a very funny and visually appealing story. This book focuses on the adventures of two 4th grade boys and the content is designed to perfectly reflect this. This book showcases the actual comics that the boys write into the story and draws readers in. The concepts that the boys write in their comics relate to probably every 4th grade child’s thoughts about school.
C. For example, Captain Underpants saves the day when the children create an incredible hunk monster from throwing away their stinky taco surprise lunch because it was so disgusting. Captain Underpants lures the hungry and thirsty monster into the bathroom to drink from the toilet bowl and flushes him down. I feel that many children would relate to this comic due to the fact that school lunch can sometimes be less than appealing and children’s imaginations are so wild even involving the most simple object such as a toilet.

Curriculum Connection: This story would be wonderful for 3rd or 4th grade classes. The text is easy to read and has lots of interesting dialogue and the pictures are graphically appealing and represent the content extremely well. Also, the comic book style helps to lure in readers because they feel like they are reading two stories in one. There is the story of the actual book and then the comic book stories within. I would love to have my students gather inspiration from this book to write their own comic books and have them published

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