Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot is a VERY silly adventure for 7 year olds about a gym teacher who eats a space rock and turns into a genius.<\/p>\n
This is the twelfth book in the series and it follows on from the last one. There are now two Georges and two Harolds (a time-travel mix-up), so the boys take turns going to school. A quick comic at the start catches your reader up, but it helps if they already know Mr Krupp and his superhero secret.<\/p>\n
The space rock is a chunk of a planet full of geniuses that blew itself to bits. It lands in Piqua and gym teacher Mr Meaner pops it in his mouth (“Tastes like chicken!”). Suddenly he’s using enormous words and, for some reason, a British accent.<\/p>\n
His big new brain comes up with a stinky spray that squirts out of his armpits. One sniff and children turn into polite little robots who beg for extra homework. The teachers are thrilled. So, rather sadly, are George and Harold’s parents. The real boys only escape because they’ve both got streaming colds and can’t smell a thing!<\/p>\n
So they borrow a time machine and go looking for grown-ups they can trust. Who better than themselves, twenty years on? Meeting their future selves (almost THIRTY, which is very old) is one of the funniest bits.<\/p>\n
The narrator chats straight to your reader and keeps poking fun at his own book. When the grown-up boys can’t remember any of this happening, George decides it’s “probably bad writing”. There’s a drawing on nearly every page, a comic by George and Harold and a whole chapter from a pretend Dog Man book. The big robot fight is in Flip-E-Rama, where you swipe back and forth between two pages to make the picture move (the book explains how on a screen).<\/p>\n
Worth knowing before you hand it over. The toilet humour never stops. A few jokes are squarely for grown-ups, like the TV advert for the spray. The teachers start the book as patients in a “Home for the Reality-Challenged”. And the book says outright that George and Harold have ADHD, which the spray seems to switch off. It’s firmly on the boys’ side (George’s dad tells them it makes them more creative), but a child with ADHD might want to chat about it. Most will just laugh.<\/p>\n
If your reader is new to George and Harold, start at the very beginning with The Adventures of Captain Underpants. It’s where the two best friends are still just selling their homemade comics after school, and the trouble is only getting started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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