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The Des Moines Register surveyed Iowa's school districts and found that some pulled hundreds – of books under the 2023 law.
The wild pranks and bathroom humor in the Captain Underpants books were just too much for some adults. In several places around the country they have been taken off library shelves and banned from ...
I found that out the day my son brought home “Captain Underpants,” a book I would’ve never picked out on my own. Yet these puerile comic books helped my kids develop their reading and ...
The world of children's books is as wildly varied as any other genre. There are good books, bad books, middling ...
Universal Pictures on Monday afternoon unveiled Dog Man, an animated feature adaptation of the beloved book series by Dav Pilkey — the author-illustrator best known for his enduringly popular ...
Irony alert. One Clay County parent has become a prolific book challenger. Among his latest school book ban attempts: "120 Banned Books." ...
Dog Man, which is a spinoff of sorts from Pilkey’s beloved Captain Underpants franchise, has spawned eleven books thus far and sold more than 60 million copies worldwide.
There’s more out there than “Captain Underpants” and “Dog Man.” Book recommendations from a children’s librarian.
With "Dog Man," the wacky canine crusader comedy/adventure adapted from Dav Pilkey's popular children's graphic novel series (a spinoff of his "Captain Underpants" books), DreamWorks Animation ...
And don't forget the series that started it all: Captain Underpants! A new edition of The Adventures of Captain Underpants includes a brand new Dog Man comic!
Librarians who confiscated dime novels in the pre-TV era would have been appalled by the "Captain Underpants" books, which trade on toilet humor and depict children mocking a school principal.