Dav Pilkey
Dav Pilkey
David Murray "Dav" Pilkey, Jr. is an American author and illustrator of children's literature. Pilkey is the author and illustrator of the Captain Underpants book series. He also uses the pen names George Beard and Harold Hutchins, which are the names of two of the main characters in the aforementioned series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth4 March 1966
CityCleveland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the Captain Underpants books too challenging. Dont get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books arent hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.
Encourage kids to be creative without worrying about being perfect.
Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels...
A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.
Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.
Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.
It was there in the hall that I began drawing Captain Underpants, ... Soon I was making my own comic books about him.
The show was really funny and charming, ... And I loved how it seemed like it was just thrown together at the last minute.
I had A.D.D., ... I had a lot of trouble, um... what was the question again?
I've learned never to underestimate the sense of humor of a kid, ... But does it matter if the joke flies over a kid's head? No. As long as my girlfriend thinks it's funny, it stays.
They're fantastic, ... They're really funny and silly and 'catchy' and obnoxious in the best possible way. They have that wonderful energy and spontaneity that Josh seems to bring to everything. They're PERFECT!
I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.