The Adventures of Captain Underpants - Collectors' Edition

by Dav Pilkey

Book Overview

This special 8 1/2th Anniversary Edition of the book that started the Captain Underpants craze features a lenticular paper-over-board cover and a top-secret bound-in component for just $9.95. When Dav Pilkey began drawing pictures of an underwear-clad, wedgie-giving superhero as a second grader, his teacher said, "You'd better start taking life more seriously, because you can't spend the rest of your days making silly books " Luckily for us, Dav didn't...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439756685
• ISBN13: 9780439756686
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Blue Sky Press (AZ)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

Full Color Captain Underpants is AWESOME

I love Captain Underpants, and having the original in Full Color makes the characters jump off the page even more. Color also makes the Flip-O-Rama more exciting. Great book, in nice condition!

Oops!

The adv. of Capt. Underpants advertised with a CD and it didn't have one! Otherwise the book itself was fine!

Great book

My son, who's 7 really enjoyed this book.

The Adventures of Captain Underpants

kids will LOVE The Adventures of Captain Underpants I loved it! Good bye

Disappointed!

I purchased this book and was excited to see it was a Collector’s Edition and included a Bonus CD because I purchased it for my great nephew for Christmas. I received the book today and the Bonus CD was removed from the book! I am highly disappointed and cannot give this to my 7 year old great nephew without the CD. Please let me know what can be done to make this purchase right.

Teacher's Grade: A+

In my dozen years of teaching 2nd grade, there has never been a better book for motivating reluctant boy readers to read than this one. Pilkey's humorous story and illustrations compel the reluctant readers to keep going, and turn the page to see what happens next. The story is delightfully zany and full of humor that is geared for kids. The great thing about Pilkey's writing is that there's also humor geared toward adults that the kids won't have any idea is there! This is terrific to read-aloud to kids, or to have them read in small-group reading settings. A winner!

A pretty good book

This was a pretty good book.This book is mainly about the first time Captain Underpants was brought to life.Mr.krupp was hypnotized by George and Harold.What I liked about this book is the part when Captain Underpants shot the bad guy with his underpants.The part I did not realy like was the way Mr.krupp turns to Captain Underpants.

the Amazing Flip-O-Rama...

I laughed aloud at the "Amazing Flip-O_Rama" pages. For those of you who don't know, "Flip-O-Rama" is "the cheesy animation technique that lets you animate the action yourself". Don't forget to add your own sound effects. In fact, you'll be laughing so hard you might have trouble with the sound effects, but who cares! This is THE book if you have kids who aren't really into reading. Everybody who sees it at my work (I work in a library) has to pick it up and look at it--and before they know it, they are laughing out loud. Read the others too (read the fourth one, about Evil Professor Poopypants, and you'll be changing your name!).

ATTENTION PARENTS OF RELUCTANT READERS!!!!:

My son is a typical 8 year old boy. Passing gas is the hit of his life. Up with recess! Down with studies! How can you get through to a kid like this? Let alone get him to want to read?ANSWER: Buy and read THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS!!!!! Just with that name and the cover picture alone, I knew he would be interested. But I never expected him to read it COVER TO COVER, BY HIMSELF, THREE TIMES, IN THE FIRST SITTING!!!!I took this book with me to my son's gymnastics team practice to praise it up and down to the parents of the boys on his team (quite a few were reluctant readers too). Some parents raised an eyebrow, but as the book made the rounds, and even the toughest to please kid shouted, "GET ME THIS BOOK!!" all the parents were convinced.My son is now an excellent reader who has moved on to great books, but he returns to Captain Underpants regularly, and I still hear him giggling to his friends, "HAVE I GOT A BOOK FOR YOU!!"

This book is awesome and incredibly funny

I just finished reading this to my 3 sons, ages 4, 6, and 8 and the four of us couldn't stop laughing. It's a wonderfully silly story. Even the flip pages were really well done. (I expected them to be lame.) As soon as the boys heard that there was another adventure of Captain Underpants on the way, I was entreated to get it. Definitely. I bought this book because the title was different and because we've read all of the Dragon books and Hallo-weiner and loved them all. We were NOT disappointed.