Pilkey’s characters in the first book, Captain Underpants. “The journey of Petey is actually a journey that is really close to my heart because he started out feeling like a villain and a bad ...

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 ...

6 ALL FOURS (Riverhead ... An account of the explorer Captain James Cook’s ill-fated final voyage. 9 THE CREATIVE ACT (Penguin, $32). By Rick Rubin. A Grammy-winning music producer shares ...

If you’re a parent of a child under 10, you know all about this oddball character and his bestselling series of 11 eponymous books by “Captain Underpants ... worldwide. A 6-year-old reviews ...

Case in point: her compellingly complicated relationship with the 2018 movie Captain Underpants, which she shared in a recent interview mesmerized her so intensely that a thief posing as an agent ...

Creating comic books together, they create the character Captain Underpants, who becomes real after the kids hypnotise their principal Mr. Krupp to become him. The series concluded with the ...

NEW YORK • Publisher Scholastic has halted the publication of a book by children's author Dav Pilkey, best known for his Captain Underpants series, who offered an online apology for the title's ...

Could “Captain Underpants” and Dr. Seuss books simply be products of their time as well? If so, why is there a double standard? After all, if people in the 1950s or 2010s had found the books offensive ...

The book featured problematic imagery of Asian stereotypes. A children's graphic novel is being taken off of shelves for what its publisher Scholastic calls "passive racism." The 2010 book ...

Author Dav Pilkey, best known for his children’s book series Captain Underpants, and Scholastic publishing have pulled his 2010 graphic novel The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from ...