The man behind the movement: Clay County parent Bruce Friedman targets Captain Underpants, Stephen King and "120 Banned Books" An example she cited was “Heroine,” a gritty novel about a teen ...

"The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants," born as a series of massively successful books by Dav Pilkey, has become a charmingly subversive, knockabout cartoon series, streaming as of Friday on Netflix.

There’s a copy of a book called “120 Banned Books” in the library at Orange Park High School. Or at least it has been there in the past. If one Clay County parent has his way, when nearly ...

Beyond that, if one parent has his way, none of Clay County’s K-8 students will be able to read “Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stink-A-Lot” at their schools, and none of ...

The children's series "Captain Underpants" has surprisingly topped the list of the most banned books in America in 2012, beating out the much more controversial title "Fifty Shades of Grey." ...

The creator of Captain Underpants, Pilkey’s penned other major youth-skewing books that have garnered prominent fan bases, such as the Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot series. In the modern world ...

It’s hard to say the name “Captain Underpants” without smiling, and the big-screen debut of the skivvies-clad superhero (the film’s subtitle is “The First Epic Movie”) maintains that ...

Dav Pilkey has just released his 10th Captain Underpants book. The series, packed with potty humor and goofy illustrations, delights reluctant readers and horrifies many grown-ups. Pilkey says he ...

“Captain Underpants” also imparts a universal lesson about the distinction between laughing with someone, rather than at them, and most important, about being able to laugh at yourself.

20th Century Fox’s animated adventure Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie tells the story of a grouchy principal who turns into the underwear-clad, super-powered invention of his two least ...

The presumptuously titled Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, based on Dav Pilkey’s first four children’s books in the Captain Underpants series (all of which have amusingly lengthy ...