Reviews

Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot (Captain Underpants #12), Volume 12 by Dav Pilkey

mbbb72's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

itaby's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

breakfastgrey's review against another edition

4.0

This was an excellent conclusion to a delightful series. It wasn’t the best book of the series, but it did its job well: tie up the loose ends in a satisfactory way. Things have gotten a bit over complicated of late in the Captain Underpants world and I appreciate the streamlining this book does to tidy things up for the end, even if we still had some “huh?” moments in my household from the kiddo as I read certain parts aloud.

icanreadish's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

smashingreads's review against another edition

DNF at 35 pages. The first few chapters were talking crap about the GOP (grumpy old people) and Fox News, etc. etc. It is gross and unnecessary to put politics into a kids book like this and I was thankful the kids were bored with it so that we didn’t have to move past the first few chapters. 

emelkay24's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Satisfying endings are hard.

tx2its's review against another edition

1.0

Reading 2019
Book 95: Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks A Lot by Dav Pilkey

Read this for Banned Books Week, #3 on the 2018 Most Challenged list.#30booksin30days (book 25) Now this series was discussed as something parents/teachers thought promoted disruptive behavior. As a teacher, I can tell you that there is plenty of disruptive behavior in a classroom daily, and Captain Underpants does not make it worse. He may even make it better, because if the kids were reading they were not being disruptive.

This book was awful, in my opinion. The language (not bad language) used was not something I thought the kids would enjoy, as the book went on there were more cartoons and illustrations, which was better. The story got better as the book went on and if the kids could get to that part they might like it. This is my first and last Captain Underpants book. I read one, been there, done that, Mic drop!

123abc456def's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

4.75

jcschildbach's review against another edition

4.0

I picked this up at Costco because I used to read these with my kid 15 to 20 years ago and they were always fun, and it was only a few bucks for a hardback, full-color book!! There are a lot of cultural references to things that people of my generation will get (bionic-hamster-pterodactyls named Tony, Orlando, and Dawn for instance) so that added a bit of fun. The teacher's names are all puns. Overall pretty clever and fun.

kfont42's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I appreciate how neatly the story was wrapped up. I do wish he had brought the grandparents back into the story though!