The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby

The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby : the first graphic novel by George Beard and Harold Hutchins / [Dav Pinkley].— New York : Scholastic, 2002.

125 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

(Captain Underpants)

ISBN: 0-439-37606-8

1. Infants Comic books, strips, etc. 2. Superhero Comic books, strips, etc.

741.5973

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, 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.”