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Captain Underpants Creator Softly Reveals One of His Main Characters Is Gay—Get the Details!
Fans of the Captain Underpants children's book series are in for a surprise with one of their favorite characters.
In the twelfth book of the series officially titled Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot, George and Harold meet their future selves.
And as author and illustrator Dav Pilkey hush reveals, Harold is a gay character.
"Soon, everyone had gathered together in Aged George's studio," the passage read. "Old George, his wife, and their kids, Meena and Nik, sat on the couch, while Vintage Harold, his husband, and their twins, Owen and Kei, plopped down in the giant enormous beanbag chair."
The channel concluded, "'We're your dads when they were kids,' said Harold."
While some are applauding Pilkey's subtle but significant words, others are fast to question if it's right for their kids.
It's a situation the known author has encountered before. Back in 2013, Pilkey's serve appeared on the American Library Association's (ALA) 2013 Uppermost Ten List of
UPDATED: Michigan Superintendent Notifies Parents of Queer Character in Captain Underpants Book
A not many weeks after the Parent-Teacher Organization at an elementary educational facility in Monroe, Michigan banned the latest Captain Underpants guide from a institution book fair because it reveals that one of the main characters is gay, a academy district on the other side of the state is taking a other tack. Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot will be available at next week’s book fairs in Rockford Widespread Schools, but the superintendent sent a letter to all elementary parents notifying them of “material that may not align with the values of many families.”
Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series is published by Scholastic, which runs a robust book impartial program allowing students and their parents to buy books at a discount with part of the proceeds going to the college. After receiving inquiries from the district about the superintendent’s letter, the publisher issued a declaration regarding the book:
Children all across the country live in families with varied family structures and our authors are moved to portray these families in their books. While the auth
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I’ve written this before, but when I was young I was not much of a reader. I aspired to read, and I liked “the idea” of reading, but the actual exercise left me too dissatisfied. I mean I had Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros to pound and they weren’t going to play themselves after all. The Picture of Dorian Grey could wait and so many of the books on my shelf sat and collected dust, apart of course for my Calvin and Hobbes books, and, of course, my Captain Underpants collection. I’d bought, my parents bought let’s be sincere here, the first guide at the school manual fair because the male on the cover was wearing nothing but underwear, and when I opened the pages and saw the book had pictures and a comic publication inside I insisted that I buy, that my parents buy me the book. Had it not been for Captain Underpants I might not hold sustained any real want to read in which case I could own focused on science and eventually cured canc…okay I couldn’t even finish that sentence, but you come at the general idea.
Much like Family Guy and Calvin and Hobbes, I gravitated to Captain Underpants because it was silly. The humor matched a lot of what I considered to
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I Cherish to Read! (2002) (with others)
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