"Now if, say, Super Diaper Baby's character were not an actual diapered baby but a whip-cracking dom with a sharp set of pins and a special "changing table," then it might not be appropriate for the elementary set. Maybe I should write my own book."
I've read your blog for a while, and enjoyed it immensely, but I just had to say that this is one of the best and funniest comments I've seen in years.
Thanks. Keep up the good work.
And a happy Banned Books Week to you too, Redneck Mother - nice post.
Super Diaper Baby and the other Pilkey potty-humor books are a staple chez Walker. 8-year-old J. reads them to preliterate 5-year-old T. They'll sit on the couch for an hour while they go through the book for the umpteenth time, laughing uncontrollably at the jokes. *I* don't like potty humor, but hey, I'm 34. Dav Pilkey and his unabashed little-kid sense of humor increases the fun and togetherness of our household - so how is that a bad thing?
In summary: Free expression (with some wise guidance by caring parents), good; people I don't know telling me what my kids mustn't read, bad.
Interestingly, we just got our family copy of "It's So Amazing" a few weeks ago, and my kids both loved it (and learned a lot). The 9 y.o. read it cover to cover, and I read selected portions to the 4 y.o.
Then (how timely) we got a survey from our school district on sex education - they want to know at what age various topics should be introduced in school, so they can teach at "community standards". Or at least the community standards of those who bother to return the survey. I'm really interested to see what the results of this survey show about our community.
I was first, ah, exposed, to Captain Underpants via the "Name Change-O-Chart" email that went around a couple years ago. I sent the email to my friend Crusty BananaBuns, and when I found out "Captain Underpants & the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants" was a real book, I bought it for my early-reader son immediately. 
Love, Stinky ChuckleBuns, aka alwen
You should totally write children's books. You would be awesome at it. Fiction, nonfiction -- you would enjoy it, and they would sell. And children would benefit.
Pissing off people who think censorship is an appropriate response to anything would just be a delightful bonus, when you could achieve it.
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