Captain Underpants And The Preposterous Plight Of The Purple Potty People

Another in the children's (and many adults) favourite series of Captain Underpants highly amusing adventures in which `wedgie power' is used to overcome a veritable phalanx of comical super villains with the help of a motley and constantly changing cast of unlikely super heroes.And why do kids absolutely love these books beyond most others? `Simple' as that annoying tv advert meerkat says repeatedly to the enrichment of the owners of an internet comparison site, because the jocularity is very basic majoring on `fart' humour, irreverent, fast moving, and one whole lot of fun.....just about everything that most kids lap up. Little wonder that killjoy groups such as The American Library Association features The Captain Underpants books very high up in their lists of books needed to be banned......goodness me we can't be having children actually reading books, and enjoying the experience - its better for them to continue watching television and computer screens and not read at all! Instead of castigating and poo-pooing (if you excuse the expression) the Captain and his knockabout friends and foes, plaudits by the bucket full should be showered over this series of books.In this episode our valiant verging on flatulent hero, Captain Underpants returns to battle the evil Captain Blunderpants, with the help of two new superheroes, Great Granny Girdle and Boxer Boy resulting in yet another hilarious romp.Highly recommended.

A thousand thumbs up!My son is 7, moving to grade 3 in January and is a very good reader for his age. I want him to keep reading for fun so I purchase a good variety of books for him. It usually takes him a week or two to get through a 'home-read' because of his reading homework, but he read this book over a weekend. He completely followed the story and enjoyed the illustrations and the characters. I want to buy more in the series.

My 7 year old loved the first captain underpants in the series but this book even though we enjoyed the silliness and anarchy, he could not follow or grasp it and it’s concepts. A bit all over the place.

As a parent, you might be put off by the "non-appropriate" language, the primitive illustrations and the absurd plot of the stories. But it seems to be just this absurdity which makes my son understand the dividing line between CU (live out your schoolboy fantasies) and real life (show your appropriate language and behaviour).Since I am kindly refusing to read these half-comics to him, Captain Underpants have marked my son's entry point into truly independent reading.Three stars in spite of everything. :)

I wanted to read one of these books before taking my 5 year old grandson to see the movie. I also want to get him into chapter books, so this was perfect! He was so thrilled with every twist and turn of the story! We want to read another Dav Pilkey book very soon! me too.