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Book Reviews of The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, Bk 1)

The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, Bk 1)
The Adventures of Captain Underpants - Captain Underpants, Bk 1
Author: Dav Pilkey
ISBN-13: 9780590846288
ISBN-10: 0590846280
Publication Date: 9/1/1997
Pages: 128
Rating:
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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4 stars, based on 143 ratings
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
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20 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, Bk 1) on + 597 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
My friends sons just love these. If you are having trouble finding something for your boys to read try these.
reviewed The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, Bk 1) on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Silly, silly, silly. Just "naughty" enough to appeal to elementary age boys without going over the top.
reviewed The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, Bk 1) on + 6 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
It's not hard to understand why kids love these books. They are very visual, employ several different story-telling methods and are fun to hear. My older boy who read them himself passed them down to the younger whom I read them to. He wanted to get them all. He loved them!
reviewed The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, Bk 1) on + 21 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
The boys in grade 2 through 6 loves this serios of books from Dav Pilkey. My son reads them and then reads them again. Great for those who are to get to read. Boys relate to them.
reviewed The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, Bk 1) on + 37 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
One of my son's Captain Underpants books that he made me get for him. I didn't get it, but maybe I am just too old! HA!

If I were a boy again, I would probably have read this myself. My son really likes these books, which I can understand with his twisted sense of humor. Hey he is a boy afterall.
reviewed The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, Bk 1) on + 15 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Great! One of my kids favorites. About a little boy and his wild imagination.
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Helpful Score: 1
HILARIOUS
Kmarie avatar reviewed The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, Bk 1) on + 529 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Really funny and cute book! It is good for "chapter readers" or to be read aloud. Fun for boys or girls, though the main characters are boys.
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Helpful Score: 1
I have read all my daughter's capt. underpants books and they are absolutely hysterical for the 7-11 set!
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Helpful Score: 1
Very funny. My kids love it. Graphic format makes it easy to stick with.
reviewed The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, Bk 1) on + 98 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
You'll be howling with laughter (or laffter)!
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Helpful Score: 1
Hilarious!!!
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Helpful Score: 1
My daughter just LOVED this book! Lots of fast fun and adventure to keep her interested.
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Helpful Score: 1
My son loved this book!
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Helpful Score: 1
My son loved this book. He is making it his goal to read all the Captin Underpants books now.
cornetto avatar reviewed The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, Bk 1) on + 9 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Absolutely hilarious!!!
Rebemdee avatar reviewed The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Captain Underpants, Bk 1) on
Very cute and funny. I didn't like the misspelled words; I know it is supposed to be a reflection of the "kids" writing the story, but I would want my child to read and learn vocabulary in the process.
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Great read for an eight year old boy!!!
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Don't ask me why, but kids love Captain Underpants!
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Grade 2-5-Pilkey packs an amazing amount of humor into what could have been a one-gag novel. Besides turning their principal into a silly superhero, George and Harold play tricks on just about everyone. They pepper pom-poms, put bubble bath in tubas, and fill a football with helium. Pilkey's illustrations are half the fun, and that magical moment when the hypnotized Principal Krupp dons his Captain Underpants uniform and sings "Tra-La-Laaaaaaaa" is priceless. Krupp is a worthy successor to Lamar J. Spurgle, the nemesis of "the Cut-Ups" in James Marshall's great picture books. The "kneel here" sign in front of his desk says it all. Kid Appeal Award: Superheroes are always fascinating to kids. And children of a certain age will laugh at anything that has to do with underpants. Combining the two was a stroke of comic genius.
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