The Adventures of Captain Underpants
Fourth edition cover
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| Author | Dav Pilkey |
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| Illustrator | Dav Pilkey |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Captain Underpants series |
| Genre | Children's novel, Humor |
| Publisher |
Blue Sky (US), Scholastic (US) |
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Publication date
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September 1, 1997 (Black and White) August 27, 2013 (Color) |
| Media type | Print (Paperback, Hardcover) |
| Pages | 125 |
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| Followed by | Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets |
The Adventures of Captain Underpants is an American children's novel by Dav Pilkey, the first novel in the Captain Underpants series. It was published on September 1, 1997, and became a hit with children ages 6–8 (mainly boys) across America.
Fourth graders George Beard and Harold Hutchins are best friends and the troublemakers of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. Aside from pulling numerous pranks, the two sell comic books on the playground featuring superheroes they created, the newest being "The Amazing Captain Underpants".
One day, they pull their latest prank, a series of practical jokes at the school's football game: they sprinkle black pepper into the cheerleaders' pom-poms, causing them to have a short sneezing fit, pour liquid bubble bath in the marching band's instruments causing them to blow bubbles, fill the game ball with helium causing it to float away when kicked, and replace the players' muscle-rub ointment with itching cream causing the whole team to have a massive itching fit, among other things, causing the school to forfeit the game.
The next day, their mean-spirited, child-hating principal, Mr. Krupp, who especially loathes them and their pranks, calls them into his office and reveals that he installed tiny surveillance cameras all over the school and now has a videotape containing footage of them preparing their pranks. Now that he finally has proof to use against them after being forced to endure their antics (including them putting dissected frogs in the jello salad during the parent-teacher banquet, making it snow inside the cafeteria and rigging all the intercoms causing them to blare "Weird Al" Yankovic songs full blast for six hours straight) for countless years, Mr. Krupp blackmails George and Harold: unless they obey him, he will give the tape to the football team.
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