Banishing Captain Underpants: An investigation of the 3,400 books pulled in Iowa. Samantha Hernandez Tim Webber Chris Higgins Phillip Sitter F. Amanda Tugade Kyle Werner Des Moines Register ...

The University Libraries recently celebrated Banned Books Week by hosting its popular Edible Books Festival on Sept. 24. The event celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical ...

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Kept Things Simple “It ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” as they say. So it was with bringing the Captain Underpants books to the big screen with Captain ...

Publisher Scholastic Corp has halted publication of a book by children's author Dav Pilkey, best known for his "Captain Underpants" series, who offered an online apology for the title's unintended ...

A Des Moines Register survey found nearly 1,000 unique titles were removed from Iowa public schools. Classics such as “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “1984” were among the books removed.

More: John Green, Toni Morrison, Jodi Picoult, Colleen Hoover among most banned authors in Iowa "We decided it was not our job to physically flip through all the books in the library," Butler Abry ...