The children's series "Captain Underpants" has surprisingly topped the list of the most banned books in America in 2012, beating out the much more controversial title "Fifty Shades of Grey." ...

A children's graphic novel from the immensely popular "Captain Underpants" series will no longer be found in library and book store shelves after the publisher deemed it to contain "passive racism.

Scholastic has pulled a book by "Captain Underpants" author Dav Pilkey that the publisher says "perpetuates passive racism." "The Adventures of Ook and Gluk," published in 2010, served as a ...

(CNN) -- Here's what you need to know about Captain Underpants, in brief: He's a pudgy comic superhero in a red cape and white undies, who flies through the pages of a series of children's books ...

From "Goosebumps," "The Adventures of Captain Underpants," and "The Magic School Bus," the book fair was a glorious time to ...

the Newbery Medal novel “The Giver” by Lois Lowry and “Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot,” a popular children's book with an LGBTQ+ character, by Dav Pilkey.

On the Books: Kelly Clarkson gives up Jane Austen's ring; Banned Books Week in full swing 'Captain Underpants' returns: Creator and potty humor maestro Dav Pilkey gives us the scoop A briefs and ...

A place on the banned books lists puts Captain Underpants in some august company. Would Huck Finn be celebrated if he did what he was told? What if Holden Caulfield had just stayed at his nice ...

It was there in the hall that I began drawing Captain Underpants. Soon I was making my own comic books about him. Q: Did your teachers encourage this pursuit? How about your parents? Pilkey ...

Author Dav Pilkey is most well known for the endlessly popular illustrated children’s book series Captain Underpants and its animalian spinoff Dog Man. Following the success of the feature film ...

Reach him at [email protected]. This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Banishing Captain Underpants: An investigation of the 3,400 books pulled in Iowa.