Book Recommendation: The Captain Underpants Series

Those who know me are surely rolling their eyes and saying, "Of course she reads books about someone called Captain Underpants!" These are written on a fifth-grade level, and I mean that in a good way. Dav Pilkey, the author, has basically polished up the comics he drew when he was a kid and got 'em published. They're great. They're all about a couple of boys who get a Super Secret Hypo-Ring (I have one myself) and accidentally hypnotize their principal, who strips down to his underwear, whips off his toupee, and skips off to fight crime, tra la laaaa. Among his foes are some Very Naughty Lunch Ladies, Terrible Talking Toilets, and Professor Poopypants. You gotta love that. I also have a couple of the Captain Underpants Extra Crunchy Books O' Fun, which have great activities you can do when the stiffs next to you on the Commuter Rail are doing Sudoku.