Captain Underpants!

I am very fortunate that Eliza and Jude both love to read and can read well, but I did find that getting Jude excited about the possibility of reading a book and then having the attention span to actually read it didn't come so easily. We tried various books about dragons, knights, fighting (I know its all very stereotypical), joke books, comics etc but the books that came to the rescue were the wonderful 'Captain Underpants' by Dav Pilkey. As Jude's friend Ned put it, "they are easy to read as they make me laugh".

For those of you who have not come across Captain Underpants yet, this is the general gist of the story........'Once upon a while ago, there was two cool kids named George and Harold. They had a rilly nice principle named Mr Krupp. So they hipnotized him. "you are now captain underpants". Mr Krupp rilly thought he WAS captain underpants and he got in lots of trubble!!!' I hasten to add this is written, 6 year old grammar and all, by George and Harold.

Jude and all his friends (and Eliza sometimes) LOVE Captain Underpants and buying him the latest copy of 'Captain Underpants and The terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers', was worth every penny.

He even writes about him in his school journal.....