Aliens Love Underpants

My daughter turned six last week, and we have entered potty humor territory.  Anything relating to bodily functions, private parts or undies are hilarious to her.  So, I bought this book for her.

(I have a soft spot for potty humor as well)

Author: Claire Freedman
Illustrator: Ben Court
Publisher: Scholastic Inc. (2008) 
Series:  The Underpants Books
Prices: Hardcover - $11.99, Paperback - $4.16
Reading level: 4 to 7 years old
Interest level: Lower and Middle Grades
Physical Characteristics: 9.7 x 11.2 inches, 32 pages 
ISBN: 9781416917
Genres: Children’s Picture Book

Subjects:

Extraterrestrial beings -- Juvenile fiction.

Underwear -- Fiction.

Stories in rhyme -- Fiction.

Underpants

Annotation: Aliens come to earth… for the underwear.

Summary: 
Aliens come to earth for underpants. They fly down as soon as they see freshly laundered clothes on the line in a backyard.  Once the aliens land on earth they play in underwear of all kinds: big underwear, small underwear, frilly underwear, bright underwear.  But, when mom comes out to get the laundry all the aliens disappear.  The only evidence that they were there are underwear scattered around the yard.


Evaluation:
The book is silly and cute, but I didn’t love it.  The drawings are the best part of the book.  The story seems a bit weak.  I get it, aliens love underwear.  But there doesn’t seem to be much more to this book than that.  It is just totally on the surface without any chance for open ended imagination.

Similar Titles or Authors:
Aliens in Underpants Save the World by Claire Freeman
Silly Sally by Audrey Wood
Bear in Underwear by Todd Doodler

Websites:
http://www.underpantsbooks.com/

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/aliens-love-underpants#cart/cleanup

Professional Reviews:
Nursery World

Bookseller

All images (c) Ben Court