Captain Underpants #9: Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers Full Colour Edition (Book 9) Award-winning author by Dav Pilkey (author and illustrator) (UK edition)

Laugh out loud with Captain Underpants, from Dav Pilkey, the creator of Dog Man!Tippy Tinkletrousers is back in the ninth full colour book in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. George and Harold are behind bars for a crime they didn’t commit! But just as they are settling into their new life, they are pulled from prison by a time-travelling tyrant named Tippy Tinkletrousers! Now the boys are taking a trip back in time to the carefree days of kindergarten, when the scariest thing they had to face was not evil mad scientists or alien cafeteria ladies but a sixth-grade bully named Kipper Krupp, the nephew of their clueless school principal. And because George and Harold don’t invent Captain Underpants until they’re in fourth grade, the clever kindergarteners are on their own. Can they beat the bullies with brainpower instead of Wedgie Power?

About the series:

Captain Underpants is now a feature-length animated film from DreamWorks and a series on Netflix
The original Captain Underpants books are fully illustrated with black and white comic book drawings
The books are now also available in full-colour graphic novels
Perfect for all children, but especially those who are struggling to engage with reading
Full of fun and laughs (and toilet humour)!

Product Details

Catalogue number

2033 in Global Primary May 2025

Series

Captain Underpants (book 9)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780702307454

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

May 6th, 2021

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.1; Middle years plus; 3.0 points

Other details

304 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Part of this Series

Captain Underpants

Author/Illustrator

Dav Pilkey

When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books – the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.

In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to illustrate and write. He won a national competition in 1986 and the prize was the publication of his first book, World War Won. He made many other books before being awarded the 1998 California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath, which was published in 1994, and in 1997 he won the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy.

The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, published in 2002, was the first complete graphic novel spin-off from the Captain Underpants series and appeared at #6 on the USA Today bestseller list for all books, both adult and children’s, and was also a New York Times bestseller. It was followed by Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, also a USA Today bestseller. The unconventional style of these graphic novels is intended to encourage uninhibited creativity in kids.

His stories are semi-autobiographical and explore universal themes that celebrate friendship, tolerance, and the triumph of the good-hearted.

Dav loves to kayak in the Pacific Northwest with his wife.