Captain Underpants receives more library complaints than Fifty Shades Of Grey
The American Library Association has released its annual list of the “most challenged” books in schools and public libraries, a compendium of the titles that have most frequently garnered the formal complaints that librarians sit around and read to each other in their off-hours, cackling madly. For the second time since 2012, the list was topped by Dav Pilkey’s children’s book series The Adventures Of Captain Underpants, the story of two fourth-graders who use their imaginations to create a comic-book about a superhero, whose disregard for pants is as flagrant as the book’s use of language like “pee-pee, poopy, and wedgie.” Some parents have reportedly deemed the book as unsuitable for its intended age group of ages 7 to 10, fearing they are far too young for a frank, mature discussion of pee-pee and poopy. Why, many of them didn’t discuss pee-pee until they were married.