Book Description

The Captain Underpants series, by Dav Pilkey, is a series of American children's books about two 4th graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, and the aptly-named superhero they accidentally created, who is their principal, Mr. Benny Krupp.

Professor Pippy P. Poopypants may be the greatest scientific genius the world has ever known. Unfortunately, he has such a silly name that nobody takes him seriously! Needless to say, George and Harold poo-poo Poopypants' pride - practically pulverizing it - and Poopypants is preparing to pounce! This looks like a job for Captain Underpants...

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In the fourth "epic novel" by the wildly popular Dav Pilkey, young troublemakers George and Harold are back with Mr. Krupp, the Jerome Horowitz Elementary principal they previously transformed into the superhero Captain Underpants with their 3-D hypno ring. This comic adventure begins in New Swissland, where everyone has a silly name. ("Just ask their president, the Honorable Chuckles Jingleberry McMonkeyburger Jr. or his lovely wife, Stinky.") New Swissland, just southeast of Greenland, is the home of the inventor of the Shrinky-Pig 2000 and the Goosy-Grow 4000--Professor Pippy P. Poopypants. When the professor decides to pitch his inventions in the United States, he is laughed out of every institution of higher learning because of his unusual name. Frustrated, he decides to become an elementary school science teacher where the innocent children will, he assumes, be accepting and loving.

This is where his world collides with George and Harold's, who are not accepting of his funny name, but instead explode with laughter and promptly craft a new comic book called "Captain Underpants and the Pied Pooper of Piqua." This hilarious book will crack Pilkey fans up with tiny toilets of truth, evil gerbils, and even Cher's greatest hits. (The children--not notoriously good spellers--note: "All animal cruelty was simulated. No actual girbles were forsed to listen to Cher.") And what becomes of Professor Poopypants? He gets even, devising a method to convert all names into silly names. He creates a chart in which everyone has to use letters from their own first and last names to create a madcap moniker. In the end, George and Harold learn that it's not nice to make fun of people: "'Wow,' said Harold. 'I think this is the first time one of our stories ever had a moral!' 'Probably the last time, too,' said George. 'Let's hope so,' said Harold."

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 --Flunky Pizza Chunks

From School Library Journal

Grade 2-4-Pilkey again features the absurd faculty members of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School and introduces a new science teacher when troublemakers George and Harold drive Mr. Fyde into retirement. Professor Pippy P. Poopypants is a great, but frustrated scientist whom no one takes seriously because of his name. He is certain that the "sweet, innocent" children won't laugh at his unusual appellation. Needless to say, they do, and in so doing, incur a wrath that only Captain Underpants can tame. With its bathroom humor, madcap pranks, gross adventures, mini-comic strips, and flip-book pages, this rollicking laugh-out-loud cartoon story is certain to be a hit, especially with reluctant readers.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Sharon McNeil, Los Angeles County Office of Education

From Booklist

You knew he'd be back. Yes, Captain Underpants, aka Mr. Krupp, principal of the Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, has returned, as have his enablers, students George and Harold. The plot? Suffice it to say Underpants must combat a scientific genius named Professor Pippy P. Poopypants. Poopypants goes mad when the students at Horwitz laugh at his name. (When they find out his middle name is Pee-pee, they get downright hysterical, as will readers, no doubt.) Mixed in with the minimal story is Pilkey's comic book^-style artwork; some of the pages even make a "cheesy" flip book to animate the action. Silly, gross-out fun for Captain's legion of fans.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Ilene Cooper

From Kirkus Reviews

Once again Captain Underpants, faster than a speeding waistband . . . more powerful than boxer shorts, plunges to the rescue, saving the tushies of everyone in Jerome Horwitz Elementary and the Ohio town beyond from the heinous demands of a deranged science teacher. Unable to get his shrinking and growing machinesor himselftaken seriously because of his name (go figure), inventor Pippy P. Poopypants finally cracks after reading a comic book featuring The Pied Pooper created by school neer-do-wells George and Harold. In no time, the Poops at the helm of a ten-story robot, shrinking the school to coffin size and forcing all to take names like Loopy Pizzapants or Snotty Gorillabreath from a (given in full) set of lists. Hes no match, of course, for Captain Underpants, and after a brief (so to speak) tussle animated by the now-familiar flip-o-rama, everyone is restored to original size as the prof is carted off to the pen. Pilkeys (Ricky Ricottas Giant Robot, 1999, etc.) cartoon illustrations add their usual amount of gravitas (i.e., none), and heaps of clever puns and repartee leaven the potty humor. Another wienerer, winner. (Fiction. 9-11)

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)19.3 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)13.5