(Note: Please shake this book back and forth uncontrollably when you read the following word. Also, shout it out as loud as you can. Don't worry, you won't get in trouble.") "KA-BLOOOOOSH!" This note is from author. Imagine a child really doing this! Funny!! KaBloosh is the sound made by the volcanic Krupcakes prepared by the lunch ladies, Miss Creant & Mrs. DePoint (Think about these names.), after George and Harold left the recipe there. They tell Principal Krupp, aka Captain Underpants, that George and Harold are always playing tricks on them. "Every day, they change the letters around on our lunch sign. They put pepper in the napkin dispensers, and unscrew the caps on the salt shaker...They start food fights...They go sledding on our lunch trays...They make everybody laugh so much milk squirts out their noses...And they're constantly creating these awful comic books about us!!!" Do fourth grade boys really need graphic How-to suggestions for disrupting, or a misspelling manual? Well, if they do, Davy Pilkey has provided it. "There's not time to argue the physical improbabilities of this story." Suffice it to say, the Captain Underpants series has made multiple appearances on ALA's 100 Most Frequently Banned/Challenged list - 2002 = #6; 2004 = #4; 2005= #8 - for anti- family, offensive language, sexually explicit, violence, unsuited to age group. I had never read a Captain Underpants before, nor did I buy them for my library. I wouldn't read another nor would I recommend them.
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