Captain Underpants: Box Set (10 books) Award-winning author by Dav Pilkey (author) (UK edition)

Who says you have to grow out of toilet humour? Not Captain Underpants! He’s the world’s favourite waistband warrior, with a special superpower: making you laugh till your underwear falls down! His books are stuffed with jokes about toilets and bottoms, funny cartoons and silly plots. (Not to mention evil villains with rather naughty names.) So grab this massive box set and join the cheeky fun. Go on – you know you want to!

A bumper box set from this hugely popular series

Over 70 million Captain Underpants books sold

Winner of a Disney Adventures Kids’ Choice Award

Brilliant mix of funny writing and cartoon pictures

Product Details

Series

Captain Underpants

Format

Paperback, Slip Case

ISBN

9781407163284

Publisher

Scholastic Press

Date published

April 2nd, 2015

Other details

10 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Part of this Series

Captain Underpants

Author/Illustrator

Dav Pilkey

When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books – the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.

In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to illustrate and write. He won a national competition in 1986 and the prize was the publication of his first book, World War Won. He made many other books before being awarded the 1998 California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath, which was published in 1994, and in 1997 he won the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy.

The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, published in 2002, was the first complete graphic novel spin-off from the Captain Underpants series and appeared at #6 on the USA Today bestseller list for all books, both adult and children’s, and was also a New York Times bestseller. It was followed by Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, also a USA Today bestseller. The unconventional style of these graphic novels is intended to encourage uninhibited creativity in kids.

His stories are semi-autobiographical and explore universal themes that celebrate friendship, tolerance, and the triumph of the good-hearted.

Dav loves to kayak in the Pacific Northwest with his wife.