louisthesixteenth:

louisthesixteenth:

not to be that person but the captain underpants book series (1997-2015) is better than most young adult novels

like yall. im not even joking when i tell you how much i love this book series and thinks that everyone should get their children to read it.

captain underpants has:

-made “offensive” jokes without actually being offensive (ex. toilet humor, and a guy literally running around in just his underwear)

-showed positive representation for kids with ADHD (dav pilkey, the guy who wrote the series, has ADHD, and george and harold are also explicitly stated to have ADHD. george and harold having ADHD is also not used for comedic effect and it’s also addressed in two of the novels)

-shows positive representation for black children and black families, which is something that we rarely get to see at this point (george, one of the main protagonists, is black, and is also shown to be incredibly gifted. his parents are also really successful in their careers)

-shows positive representation for gay boys that’s presented very casually (harold, one of the main protagonists, is shown to have a husband and two kids after him and george time traveled to the future and met their future selves)

-encourages kids to follow their dreams no matter who tries to stop you (dav pilkey, the author, was told repeatedly as a child that all of his comics weren’t good. and furthermore, george and harold are constantly reprimanded for their creative outlook on life and usually wind up in detention for trying to make things fun)

-has morals in some of the novels that are actually really important (for example, in the 4th captain underpants book, one of the morals is not to make fun of a person’s name)

-and even besides all of those its just an overall good book series?? like its a really funny series?? please get your children/younger siblings to read captain underpants every child should read it