The Captain Underpants series
By Dav Pilkey
These last few weeks, our house has been filled with discussions of Captain Underpants. Our almost six year old has discovered a love for all things related to this young reader series. Everytime he gets dressed, our little man has to run around in only his underwear yelling “tralala I’m Captain Underpants!” There are twelve books in the series and I'm pretty sure we're already on the sixth book. We have already watched the movie adaptation twice on Netflix.
When our son's passion for this skivvy clad superhero started, I wanted to feed this reading love of books.
His kindergarten year was not great. Between the teacher he had and how shy he was/is, our little guy wasn't advancing how he should in his reading skills. Well, once we started reading this series, I wanted to make sure we kept having him wanting to read and hear the stories. So started my mad dash of going everywhere I could think to pick these books up. All book stores and libraries were searched. I ended up ordering a lot of them from eBay.
If you don't know this series, it's definitely a kids book for early elementary school kids, but it is cute. The stories are about these two little fourth graders that are trouble makers and how they draw these comic books. Their favorite story to draw is Captain Underpants, and somehow they hypnotize their mean principal into thinking he is Captain Underpants. A lot of the jokes consist of potty humor, but the author does throw in some humor for the parents that are either reading the book or helping their child read the book.
If you have a young reader I would definitely recommend it. At my book group, a couple of the other people at group agreed that their grandchildren liked the series as well.
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