Super Diaper Baby #2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers (Captain Underpants Series)

by Dav Pilkey, Dav Pilkey (Illustrator)

Overview

THE BABY IS BACK! Dav Pilkey's pint-sized powerhouse returns for another amazing adventure!

George and Harold (the co-stars of the enormously popular Captain Underpants series) are in big trouble again! Their mean principal, Mr. Krupp, has had it with their comic books. But the boys aren't giving up, and they decide to create an all-new epic novel about a subject they've never tackled before!

Dr. Dilbert Dinkle started his career as an ordinary, everyday evil genius/inventor/bank robber. But when he awakens one day transformed into a walking, talking puddle of pee, he vows to destroy every toilet in town. Will the devious Dr. Dinkle and his conniving cat, Petey, ruin restrooms for the rest of us? Or could this be a job for the death-defying duo of Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545175326
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	06/28/2011
Series:	Captain Underpants Series
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	32,168
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	500L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

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 the second grade, Dav's teacher ripped up his comics and told him he couldn't spend the rest of his life making silly books. Fortunately, Dav was not a very good listener.

Editorial Reviews

George Beard and Harold Hutchins, the misbehaving heroes of Captain Underpants mega-fame, have returned to write an epic novel that would make Tolstoy to wince with envy or perhaps some grosser emotion. At the center of this toilet bowl Moby Dick is Dr. Dilbert Dinkle, an evil genius who awakens one morning transformed into a puddle of pee gifted with the power of speech. With dastardly intentions, he decides to destroy every bathroom within running distance. Will his plan succeed? Can he destroy any semblance of restroom tranquility? Tune in to this second installment Super Diaper Baby!

"The laughs here (and there are many) are definitely spot-on for the intended audience... There's no question that kids will love it." — School Library Journal

"A fine example of postmodern, story-within-a-story narrative structure that will please kids, who won't care as much about postmodernism as they do about funny... monsters." — Booklist

From the Publisher

Gr 2–4—For fans of the first installment in this gross-out graphic novel series, the long wait is over. And it was long—an ad for this book appeared in the back of the first "Super Diaper Baby," published in 2002. The evil Dr. Dilbert Dinkle has created the Liquidator 2000 to turn bank vaults into water but accidentally steps in the ray himself. Rendered a puddle of H2O, he vows revenge on the town by taking all of their toilets, and Super Diaper Baby and his canine sidekick must save the day. The book is presented as a comic made by kids, with spelling and grammatical errors and willfully simplistic black-and-white artwork—a perfect match for the tone of the book. Crude humor is easy. Funny crude humor is not. And the laughs here (and there are many) are definitely spot-on for the intended audience. There are moments in this book that might leave adults in utter shock, but that is precisely the appeal of this inspired bit of potty humor. There's no question that kids will love it.—Travis Jonker, Dorr Elementary School, MI

School Library Journal

This spin-off of the wildly popular “Captain Underpants” series introduces a newborn superhero, inadvertently powerized upon falling into a container of “super power juice” stolen from Captain Underpants by the evil Deputy Dangerous. Created by the incorrigible and fictional fourth graders who supposedly drew Captain Underpants, these stories drip with bathroom humor, amusingly bad puns, misspellings, and good natured silliness.

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