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Super Diaper Baby #1
The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby
George Beard and Harold Hutchins are two amazing kids. Not only did they create Captain Underpants, but they've saved the world five times! Now George and Harold bring you an all-new superhero who's faster than a speeding stroller, more powerful than diaper rash, and able to leap tall buildings without making poopy-stinkers. Meet Super Diaper Baby - the most powerful peewee to ever pack a punch.
344 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2002
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Dav Pilkey
246 books3,519 followersDavid "Dav" Pilkey (b. March 4, 1966), is a popular children's author and artist. Pilkey is best known as the author and illustrator of the Captain Underpants book series. He lives near Seattle, Washington with his wife, Sayuri.
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August 12, 2017
Many may be familiar with Captain Underpants, but how many know about the creation of Super Diaper Baby? Neo pulls me into this adventure, permitting me to shelve my preconceived notions of what might entertain the next generation of readers. After the Hoskinses have a little baby, a freak accident at the hospital instils superpowers into this little one. That same accident turns Deputy Dangerous into his sworn enemy. Trying to win back the baby's powers, Deputy and his sidekick, Danger Dog, befall a few issues of their own. Will good trump evil yet again? *cue cheesy music* Neo laughed out loud many times and loved the "quick flips" found at the end of each chapter. An interesting intro to the world of comics and Underpants branch-offs.
July 5, 2017
Dav Pilkey is a witty writer and followers of the Captain Underpants series already knew that. In this spin-off, there are undeniably funny scenes and names such as Starbutts and Deputy Doo-doo. If you want a good laugh, you must read this series as well as the author's other works. This is categorized under children's books, but I reckon that this is more appropriate for readers 12 and above.
June 6, 2018
Cute, short story that my students found hilarious.
October 3, 2011
Before you assume I regressed to that of an eight-year-old boy's maturity level, know that I have a special eight-year-old boy in my life who begs me every night to read to him. Based on the company alone I would have rated the book five stars. But there is a lot of potty humor ("Deputy Doo-Doo") and fart jokes, and under Aspiring Teacher Quibbles, I'm placing the issue of purposefully misspelled words. Grr! I constantly trip up because I know what the word is, but it's written out how it sounds, rather than how it is actually spelled. Then I have the pleasure of a third-grader correcting me. Sigh. Overall, it was a fun dabble into a well-illustrated graphic novel for children.
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May 27, 2016this book was about a baby and he drank some juice that made him have super powers and he had to fight pee army and a giant poop and he won and there were some cool flip o ramas because it would be like him catching his dad when he was falling of a tree and this book was funny.
September 10, 2016
Made both an 8-yr-old and a 4-yr-old laugh and kept their interest.
November 14, 2016
It was a great book and everything, but i think the villain turning into a radioactive giant piece of poo is a bit far. It did have fun characters and a great plot though, I would read it again.
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December 2, 2025
another fantastic comic from Dav Pilkey.
August 17, 2026
más nicho que el capitán calzoncillos pero igual de hilarante, un clásico
July 9, 2011
Dav Pilkey is a children's literature genius. From beginning to end, as a child I have loved the Captain Underpants series, and now reading the spin-off Super Diaper Baby, I am still brought to tears of laughter as I turn each page.
Let me begin by saying this: I read this book not solely for entertainment/recreation, but with a critical eye in the likes of suggesting children's literature to parents.
Dav is a master story-teller. It is the way he writes, the style of his illustrations and the choice of words that makes Super Diaper Baby so viable for children. Pilkey makes sure his characters don't come off as an adult talking to a child about what a child is (which, let's face it, nearly 100% of children's literature books are). His stories don't come off as overtly moralizing, even though they do have some moral concepts intertwined within them (the book at hand is about good citizenship for the community).
Super Diaper Baby is so genius because it's written from a child's point of view. A comic written by Pilkey's well known characters George and Harold, the book is written the way a child would write. Therefore, children who read this book will relate to it.
I have known parents and teachers who especially hate and despise the books (especially Diaper Baby) and won't let their students read them because of the grammatical errors. I completely disagree. I think that students will learn from the grammar Pilkey uses. If I were a teacher, I would make this story mandatory reading, go through and find all of the grammar errors and correct them.
Either way, Super Diaper Baby is just another amazing story by an amazing story teller. The adventures that Super Diaper Baby and his dog will literally make you "Laff" out loud.
Let me begin by saying this: I read this book not solely for entertainment/recreation, but with a critical eye in the likes of suggesting children's literature to parents.
Dav is a master story-teller. It is the way he writes, the style of his illustrations and the choice of words that makes Super Diaper Baby so viable for children. Pilkey makes sure his characters don't come off as an adult talking to a child about what a child is (which, let's face it, nearly 100% of children's literature books are). His stories don't come off as overtly moralizing, even though they do have some moral concepts intertwined within them (the book at hand is about good citizenship for the community).
Super Diaper Baby is so genius because it's written from a child's point of view. A comic written by Pilkey's well known characters George and Harold, the book is written the way a child would write. Therefore, children who read this book will relate to it.
I have known parents and teachers who especially hate and despise the books (especially Diaper Baby) and won't let their students read them because of the grammatical errors. I completely disagree. I think that students will learn from the grammar Pilkey uses. If I were a teacher, I would make this story mandatory reading, go through and find all of the grammar errors and correct them.
Either way, Super Diaper Baby is just another amazing story by an amazing story teller. The adventures that Super Diaper Baby and his dog will literally make you "Laff" out loud.
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October 14, 2023Dav Pilkey for life. My son is the opposite of a reluctant reader, but I love that these easy-to-read, very funny, very gross books exist for kids who might have a harder time focusing or reading (and to be clear, my son loves Pilkey's books...that's why I read this one, I wasn't just reading Super Diaper Baby all on my own). I also love that he includes so many digs at things like book banning and standardized testing and, in another book, Fox News. I know there are some parents out there who hate on these books because of the poop jokes and the constant misspellings, but I like them. I also love Junie B Jones. So sue me!
June 14, 2012
I love it! Billy gets the spank of life but the doctor let go of him & Billy flew out the window. Billy drank Super Power Juice and he got super powers. At the end it was a happy ending. Such a great book. I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
January 12, 2026
A funny and silly book by Harold and George that my son and I read together.
May 7, 2010
This book is hilarious. I am still wiping the tears from eyes.
It is entirely in comic book form and written by two kids (although in teeny tiny print, Dav Pilkey tries to take all the credit.) The only thing I don't like is that their spelling is atrocious. I gess I am a purfekshionist.
When we finished, my son said he wants book number two. (Wait, or was this Book Number Two? Tee hee. Tee hee. You have to read the book to get the joke.) Anyway, he wants to keep giving our money to Dav Pilkey......
It is entirely in comic book form and written by two kids (although in teeny tiny print, Dav Pilkey tries to take all the credit.) The only thing I don't like is that their spelling is atrocious. I gess I am a purfekshionist.
When we finished, my son said he wants book number two. (Wait, or was this Book Number Two? Tee hee. Tee hee. You have to read the book to get the joke.) Anyway, he wants to keep giving our money to Dav Pilkey......
September 29, 2014
Eih. Eiiiih. EIIIIIIH enää koskaan tämmöistä!!
Vinkkaukseen.
Vinkkaukseen.
January 14, 2016
I like it because the baby in the story is cute.
February 23, 2017
Dav Pilkey could write a book about poop and I would still love it! Oh, wait......
March 25, 2020
This is the very last book we own by Dav Pilkey. Out of the three series we own this is my least favorite. The villain of this story is an evil cowboy that turns into a huge turd. Not exaggerating. Captain Underpants has a cameo.
I don’t want to hate on this series just yet. There is a book 2. However, I didn’t find this first story to be unique or funny. I love potty humor, but this one was pretty lame.
Stick to Captain Underpants or Dogman where there is character growth and good morals.
I don’t want to hate on this series just yet. There is a book 2. However, I didn’t find this first story to be unique or funny. I love potty humor, but this one was pretty lame.
Stick to Captain Underpants or Dogman where there is character growth and good morals.
February 26, 2021
super funny. the villian in it turns into poop
October 30, 2017
The comedy sparkles as usual when George Beard and Harold Hutchins create another superhero, Super Diaper Baby, for their latest comic book. Billy Hoskins is normal at birth. A careless mistake by the delivery doctor could have led to an immediate and grim conclusion to Billy's life, but an act of sheerest coincidence saves him when Deputy Dangerous and his canine lackey, Danger Dog, zoom by outside the hospital at exactly the right moment. The villains had just entrapped Captain Underpants and stolen his superpowers, converting them into a liquid they could drink to take on those powers. But fate, in the form of newborn Billy, intervenes. He falls out the high hospital window right into the container of superpower liquid, drinking it and gaining superhuman abilities. The baby dishes out swift comeuppance to Deputy Dangerous, and Billy's parents take their son home.
Deputy Dangerous escapes jail, as villains do, and sets to work stealing Super Diaper Baby's powers. After inventing a crib with a built-in disguised transfer helmet, Deputy "Undangerous" and "Safety Dog" deliver it to Billy's parents, who happily accept. That night, as Deputy Dangerous links in to his transceiver to absorb Billy's powers, something goes wrong. Something...gross. The deputy is turned not into a supervillain, but into the baby's excrement. Deputy Dangerous vows revenge for this ignominy. Still a brilliant inventor, he constructs the Robo-Ant 2000 to wreck the world. With Captain Underpants out of commission, who has the strength to defeat the gigantic robot? Super Diaper Baby, of course. Billy is getting the better of the enemy bot until it nabs him and throws him into a huge nuclear tower. The radiation will kill him unless another hero emerges to rescue the courageous baby. Will this hero arrive in time?
"Safety Dog" would rather be sidekick to Billy than Deputy Dangerous, so he joins the Hoskins family and adopts the name "Diaper Dog". But the threat from Deputy Dangerous isn't over. Still in fecal form, the villain breaks out for one last crime spree, only now he's grown to titanic proportions from the radiation in the previous episode. He can crush buildings, step on people, and Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog can't even hit him because he's so saturated with radiation that they wouldn't survive the contact. They have to be smart and make the villain defeat himself, and then carefully remove him to where he can never do harm again. It's a job well done for Billy and his dog, whose proud parents welcome them home from their noble adventure.
Dav Pilkey is a comedic savant. The humor in The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby is funnier because of the way it's presented, as a story by two kids whose depictions of adult characters, especially, are hilariously skewed. The jokes tip the scale a little further in the direction of grossness than I prefer, but it's tolerable even for someone like me who has a weak stomach. And there's more than just humor to the book: there's a message of nonconformity in George and Harold's part. The school faculty is always on their case because they're rowdy and their humor can be inappropriate, but George and Harold are clever kids who need to learn in a way that stimulates their unique brains. If the teachers were to read their comics without bias, they'd recognize how smart the young storytellers are. It's a reminder for us to keep an open mind toward people who think differently. The origin of Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog is hysterically funny, and I want more. If you feel the same way, head over to Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, and I'll see you there.
Deputy Dangerous escapes jail, as villains do, and sets to work stealing Super Diaper Baby's powers. After inventing a crib with a built-in disguised transfer helmet, Deputy "Undangerous" and "Safety Dog" deliver it to Billy's parents, who happily accept. That night, as Deputy Dangerous links in to his transceiver to absorb Billy's powers, something goes wrong. Something...gross. The deputy is turned not into a supervillain, but into the baby's excrement. Deputy Dangerous vows revenge for this ignominy. Still a brilliant inventor, he constructs the Robo-Ant 2000 to wreck the world. With Captain Underpants out of commission, who has the strength to defeat the gigantic robot? Super Diaper Baby, of course. Billy is getting the better of the enemy bot until it nabs him and throws him into a huge nuclear tower. The radiation will kill him unless another hero emerges to rescue the courageous baby. Will this hero arrive in time?
"Safety Dog" would rather be sidekick to Billy than Deputy Dangerous, so he joins the Hoskins family and adopts the name "Diaper Dog". But the threat from Deputy Dangerous isn't over. Still in fecal form, the villain breaks out for one last crime spree, only now he's grown to titanic proportions from the radiation in the previous episode. He can crush buildings, step on people, and Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog can't even hit him because he's so saturated with radiation that they wouldn't survive the contact. They have to be smart and make the villain defeat himself, and then carefully remove him to where he can never do harm again. It's a job well done for Billy and his dog, whose proud parents welcome them home from their noble adventure.
Dav Pilkey is a comedic savant. The humor in The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby is funnier because of the way it's presented, as a story by two kids whose depictions of adult characters, especially, are hilariously skewed. The jokes tip the scale a little further in the direction of grossness than I prefer, but it's tolerable even for someone like me who has a weak stomach. And there's more than just humor to the book: there's a message of nonconformity in George and Harold's part. The school faculty is always on their case because they're rowdy and their humor can be inappropriate, but George and Harold are clever kids who need to learn in a way that stimulates their unique brains. If the teachers were to read their comics without bias, they'd recognize how smart the young storytellers are. It's a reminder for us to keep an open mind toward people who think differently. The origin of Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog is hysterically funny, and I want more. If you feel the same way, head over to Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, and I'll see you there.
September 10, 2014
This was just absolutely hilarious! I loved it! Set up as one of the comics that George and Harold are always writing it starts off with the two of them getting in trouble with Mr. Krupp who assigns them an essay but tells them they cannot write one of their offensive Captain Underpants comics. Soooo, they invent a new superhero, Super Diaper Baby, and give a rollicking, laugh-out-loud comic. The whole book is written in graphic novel format and toilet humour abounds, much more so than in the Captain Underpants series, but that's ok. I thought it was plain silly and all in good fun. There are a couple of jokes that are there simply for the parent who will be reading this aloud that got a good guffaw from me. Captain Underpants fans will love this and now I'm off to read the sequel! Great fun read!
March 19, 2025
I don’t know why this book was on our shelf but Kaharau chose it for his bedtime story tonight. I expected a lot of toilet humour (which there was) but I was surprised and delighted when (spoiler alert) Deputy Dangerous tried to take diaper baby’s powers but actually turned himself into a poo lol
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May 13, 2020
I wanted to read something short and silly. This book did it for me. So funny.
July 30, 2023
Na alle avonturen van Dog Man hoeven we ons niet te vervelen want auteur Dav Pilkey komt al met een nieuwe graphic novel; Super Luier Baby! Een echte superheld in de dop!
De cover is natuurlijk al fantastisch en meteen zijn we nieuwsgierig waar dit boek over zal gaan. Bij het openslaan worden we al meteen getrakteerd op overzichtelijke pagina’s vol grappige illustraties. De stijl is herkenbaar vanuit de Dogman serie en de leuke gimmicks zoals de omsla-no-scopen zijn in dit boek ook volop aanwezig. Talloze bladzijdes vol humor, spanning en vermaak, je kunt niet wachten om ze steeds om te slaan. Je vliegt ook door dit verhaal.
Door de korte teksten die worden aan gevuld met toffe tekeningen wordt Super Luier Baby een levendige stripfiguur wat bedacht is door Sjors en Harold. Zij moeten als strafwerk een nieuwe stripheld bedenken en mogen geen oude superheld kiezen. Dat is voor hen natuurlijk geen probleem.
Je leest mee in het werkstuk van Sjors en Harold en daardoor genieten we mee van de avonturen van Super Luier Baby. Dit fantasierijke verhaal zou je bijna niet zelf kunnen bedenken en maakt ons meerdere keren aan het lachen!
En niet alleen de humoristische teksten of hilarische en soms ook spannende situaties maar zeker ook de eenvoudige illustraties, die toch veel vertellen, maken Super Luier Baby weer een graphic novel om ultiem van te genieten.
En ondanks dat je het verhaal binnen no time uit hebt, zal ook dit een verhaal zijn waar jonge lezers van zullen smullen! Dit boek is een musthave voor iedere (school) bibliotheek en zal dan ook vaak uitgeleend zijn!
Aan het eind van het boek vind je nog een heel aantal tips om leuke tekeningen te maken of leuke verhalen te bedenken. Ook onthult Dav Pikley daar een aantal van zijn geheimen, waar haalt hij zijn inspiratie vandaan en hoe maakt hij zijn teksten. Leuk en leerzaam!
Super Luier Baby zorgt voor plezier in lezen, en dat is toch wat we allemaal willen?
De cover is natuurlijk al fantastisch en meteen zijn we nieuwsgierig waar dit boek over zal gaan. Bij het openslaan worden we al meteen getrakteerd op overzichtelijke pagina’s vol grappige illustraties. De stijl is herkenbaar vanuit de Dogman serie en de leuke gimmicks zoals de omsla-no-scopen zijn in dit boek ook volop aanwezig. Talloze bladzijdes vol humor, spanning en vermaak, je kunt niet wachten om ze steeds om te slaan. Je vliegt ook door dit verhaal.
Door de korte teksten die worden aan gevuld met toffe tekeningen wordt Super Luier Baby een levendige stripfiguur wat bedacht is door Sjors en Harold. Zij moeten als strafwerk een nieuwe stripheld bedenken en mogen geen oude superheld kiezen. Dat is voor hen natuurlijk geen probleem.
Je leest mee in het werkstuk van Sjors en Harold en daardoor genieten we mee van de avonturen van Super Luier Baby. Dit fantasierijke verhaal zou je bijna niet zelf kunnen bedenken en maakt ons meerdere keren aan het lachen!
En niet alleen de humoristische teksten of hilarische en soms ook spannende situaties maar zeker ook de eenvoudige illustraties, die toch veel vertellen, maken Super Luier Baby weer een graphic novel om ultiem van te genieten.
En ondanks dat je het verhaal binnen no time uit hebt, zal ook dit een verhaal zijn waar jonge lezers van zullen smullen! Dit boek is een musthave voor iedere (school) bibliotheek en zal dan ook vaak uitgeleend zijn!
Aan het eind van het boek vind je nog een heel aantal tips om leuke tekeningen te maken of leuke verhalen te bedenken. Ook onthult Dav Pikley daar een aantal van zijn geheimen, waar haalt hij zijn inspiratie vandaan en hoe maakt hij zijn teksten. Leuk en leerzaam!
Super Luier Baby zorgt voor plezier in lezen, en dat is toch wat we allemaal willen?
January 16, 2022
“I like it a lot.”
That’s 5 year old for 5 stars.
Actually she said she would give it 23 stars. (We’re still working on understanding the 5 star review system.)
What was your favorite part?
“When he turned into a poop because that’s silly. And the best part is when super diaper baby turned into a super hero.”
What did you like the least about it?
“When they got out of jail.”
That’s 5 year old for 5 stars.
Actually she said she would give it 23 stars. (We’re still working on understanding the 5 star review system.)
What was your favorite part?
“When he turned into a poop because that’s silly. And the best part is when super diaper baby turned into a super hero.”
What did you like the least about it?
“When they got out of jail.”
May 3, 2020
It is amazing that I read it many times but still can get enough of it! I really like this book because it describes many things at the same time. Comedy, action, laughs, and many more. I would definitely recommend this to other people to read.
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November 27, 2018 I thought this book was good. When I started to read this book I knew right away it was going to be funny and cool. Some parts were just silly but also hilarious. This time they made super diaper baby and also super diaper dog I think that's pretty cool.
October 24, 2020
So funny I almost wet my diaper!
June 26, 2023
read this like 5 separate times its so cute and goofy
April 1, 2024
Can't stop reading this guy!
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