The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby

The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby is a book overflowing with potty humor befitting the sensibilities of its supposedly nine-and-a-half and ten-year-old authors and its real target audience. It’s also laugh out loud fun for those of us who can measure our age in multiples of decades – if you’re not offended by the potty humor. If you are, the penultimate page has an offer to send the publisher a self-addressed stamped envelope, “And We’LL send you more offensive stuff.” The Flip-O-Rama animation pages delightfully fulfill the cover’s promise of “Action” and “Laffs.” All in all this a delightfully silly book.

However, the reader should be aware that there are other judgments on this title. According to Pam Santi, show more the Riverside, California grandmother whose request to ban the book was rejected by Riverside Unified School District in 2003, “There’s just no moral value to that poop character.” show less

If your principal told you to write a 100-page essay on good citizenship what would you do? Well, fourth graders George and Harold use their crafty comic book creating skills (last applied to the “Captain Underpants” series) to create a new super hero- albeit this one just slightly younger and diaper-clad. Replete with the requisite bad puns, misspellings, and Pilkey’s “flip-o-rama” feature, readers will delight in Super Diaper Baby’s Herculean efforts to thwart the evil deeds of “Deputy Doo Doo” (aka Deputy Dangerous), a rather determined “piece of poo”. Not the most appropriate of books- beware of LOTS of potty humor; children ages 7-10 will enjoy laughing to themselves and with friends while surreptitiously show more reading the comical graphic novel in the corner of the classroom or library. Perfect for reluctant readers, Pilkey’s child-like drawings convey the action with as much humor as the witty text. Not all parents will appreciate the style of the writing, but kids will- and guess what? They love reading it. show less

Captain Underpants' powers are stolen and accidentally given to a baby and a dog.

Love the drawing lesson in the back and the dog that wasn't really bad made me laugh. Again there was a lot of gross out some of which did not appeal to me but I could see little kids loving (I have a vomit issue). Again the bad spelling really bothers me. Totally made me nuts.

Captain Underpants' powers are stolen and accidentally given to a baby and a dog.

Love the drawing lesson in the back and the dog that wasn't really bad made me laugh. Again there was a lot of gross out some of which did not appeal to me but I could see little kids loving (I have a vomit issue). Again the bad spelling really bothers me. Totally made me nuts.

As a punishment handed down by their principal, fourth graders Harold and George are required to write an essay on good citizenship. The result is a comic book whose main character, Super Diaper Baby, saves the world from the evil Deputy Doo-Doo. Silliness abounds as Super Diaper Baby defeats the deputy by wrapping him in toilet paper. The infant hero wins, but Harold and George still find themselves in trouble with the principal. The comics are illustrated in black and white with child-like handwriting and numerous, deliberate misspellings, adding to the juvenile comedy. Though the humor is off-color, it is presented in an age appropriate way that will have your younger readers giggling for certain. If your readers enjoy Captain show more Underpants, they are sure to love Harold and George’s new creation. show less

Dav Pilkey is a witty writer and followers of the Captain Underpants series already knew that. In this spin-off, there are undeniably funny scenes and names such as Starbutts and Deputy Doo-doo. If you want a good laugh, you must read this series as well as the author's other works. This is categorized under children's books but I reckon that this is more appropriate for readers 12 and above.

Written as an near-spinoff of The Adventures Of Captain Underpants, The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby serves as a fully-realized version of the comics that George Beard and Harold Hutchins allude to in the Captain Underpants series. Although not as multifaceted as the Captain Underpants series, it is a fun diversion, and a welcome departure from the norm, which Dav Pilkey is wont to do.