{"id":999,"date":"2011-01-17T23:57:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T23:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:21:06","slug":"captain-underpants-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2011\/01\/17\/captain-underpants-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Underpants library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/70850178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1001\" title=\"captain\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/captain1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a>Sarah Sloat&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/theraininmypurse.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/dummhausen.html\">blog post<\/a> about the Dummhausen library (which had to close because someone stole the book) reminds me to document the library in Dav Pilkey&#8217;s Captain Underpants series. The school library contains only one book, and the librarian is Ms. Singerbrains (say it out loud).<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People<\/em> (number eight in the series), our heroes George and Harold visit an alternate reality where their school&#8217;s library is full of books, and the librarian even celebrates Banned Books Week (she&#8217;s shown holding a copy of <em>Mommy Has Two Heathers<\/em>, a play on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/23686958\">this frequently-banned book<\/a>). And that reminds me! Pilkey has other library shenanigans in his book <em>The Dumb Bunnies<\/em>, too. In that book, the dumb bunnies &#8220;bowl a home run at the public library,&#8221; where books on the shelves include <em>The Condo that Jack Subleased<\/em>, <em>The Second to Last of the Mohicans<\/em>, and <em>Green Eggs and Tofu<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Sloat&#8217;s blog post about the Dummhausen library (which had to close because someone stole the book) reminds me to document the library in Dav Pilkey&#8217;s Captain Underpants series. The school library contains only one book, and the librarian is Ms. Singerbrains (say it out loud). In Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-g7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}