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The children's series "Captain Underpants" has surprisingly topped ... Freedom that the illustrated books contain "offensive language" that is unsuited to the series' target age group of ...
Captain Underpants complaints of “offensive language” and “unsuitable for age group” were apparently enough for it to top the gay-penguin tale And Tango Makes Three (No. 5) and ...
In addition, that year, "Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants" was removed from an elementary school in Page, N.D., after a parent objected to the book's language and ...
For the past two years, "Captain Underpants" was the book most frequently sought to be censored or banned, according to the American Library Association (ALA). Complaints have included "offensive ...
[Also] vulgar language, and they feel that kids are being taught not to obey authority." Scales says Exnicios' mom is on the right track. Scales — who's a big fan of Captain Underpants — wants ...
So here we are reading the (ahem) Captain Underpants books by Dav Pilkey instead ... with people complaining about offensive language. There is lots of toilet talk, sure (Professor Poopypants ...
The issues, prior to this week's uproar over a gay character in the popular children's book series "Captain Underpants," have included foul language, sexual content and religion. -Elementary ...
In the late 1990s, Dav Pilkey launched the first children’s novel of the Captain Underpants series—a ... films should experiment with film language, even within the studio system.
The objections: Offensive language, and, of course, graphic sexual content. No. 1 was a not a story of the bedroom, but the bathroom, Dav Pilkey's "Captain Underpants" books (Offensive language ...
By Alexa Girkout Captain Underpants Rob Letterman Inset - P 2013 ... but the most troublesome literary content in 2013 was language like pee-pee, poopy, wedgie and Dr. Diaper.