#152 in Children’s books
Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants
- 152
- Pages
- about 3 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants” is Dav Pilkey’s silly humour at full throttle. This time a mad scientist with a ridiculous name arrives as the new science teacher at the boys’ school, and the pupils cannot stop laughing at him. Some readers count him among the most memorable villains of the whole series. Children who already love the earlier books will want this one too.
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About the book
Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants is the fourth book in the Captain Underpants series written by Dav Pilkey, published in 2000. The book is about a mad scientist named Professor Pippy P. Poopypants becoming a new science teacher at Jerome Horwitz Elementary. However, all the students laugh at his name.
Reading order · Captain Underpants
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7.77.7 / 10 - Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor PoopypantsThis book
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 51 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 26% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Children’s books average of 7.9. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 13 | 26% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 6 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 32 | 63% |
Frequently asked
What age is Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants for?
Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants sits on the Children shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 5–10. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 152 pages — shorter than 99% of the ranked books in Children’s books.
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