The Adventures of Captain Underpants, The First Epic Novel / Dav Pilkey / 121 pages / First Book in a Series

"George and Harold were usually responsible kids.  Whenever anything bad happened, George and Harold were usually responsible."  Harold loved to draw and George loved to make up stories so the boys spent hours and hours in their tree house writing and drawing their own comic books.  Because "most super heroes look like they're wearing underwear", they created a superhero who really is flying around in his underwear - Captain Underpants, who fights with wedgie power.  After being videotaped pulling pranks at a football game, the boys are blackmailed into good behavior by Principal Krupp.  They decide to hypnotize him and steal the video.  While he is hypnotized, they turn him into Captain Underpants...and the fun begins.  This JGN is clever, entertaining, and sure to appeal to kids...of all ages.  I especially liked page 79...The Warning for the Extremely Graphic Violence chapter.