Alone and hungry, the young siblings encounter a spectacular giant whale and travel briefly with shark-hunting orcas. To escape the waters polluted by shattered boats, Vega leads Deneb into unfamiliar open sea. Dispatched to find his missing sister, Deneb locates Vega in the midst of a terrible tsunami. When the baby sister she hoped would become her life companion is stillborn, a distraught Vega carries the baby away to a special resting place, shocking her grieving family. Invited to guide her family to their Gathering Place to hunt salmon, Vega’s underwater miscalculations endanger them all, and an embarrassed Vega questions whether she should be a wayfinder. Vega’s matriarchal family expects her to become a hunter and wayfinder, with her younger brother, Deneb, protecting and supporting her. 6-10)Īfter a tsunami devastates their habitat in the Salish Sea, a young orca and her brother embark on a remarkable adventure. More sophisticated readers will better appreciate the forbidden humor of Roald Dahl. Some readers might feel encouraged to design their own comic books. Adults will want to use this book as a birdcage liner, and young readers with elementary senses of humor will revel in the humor and silliness. Scatological humor is the order of the day, crowned with a toilet-paper–wrapped Deputy Doo-Doo being delivered to, you guessed it, Uranus. But most children get a delicious thrill from reading forbidden and naughty things, and Pilkey has filled this niche for the emergent reader. When Diaper Dog reassures the newly transformed Deputy Dangerous that it could be worse, “you could have been turned into diareah ,” most adults will consider closing the covers and turning to more serious fare. The bad guy being turned into a giant “piece of poo” and many more visual and written references to human excrement will revolt grownups and embarrass some members of the intended audience. Adults and children who can spell well will surely be distracted and occasionally confused by the plethora of misspelled words and missing punctuation marks. There is plenty to be offended by in this truly “graphic” work. The story of Super Diaper Baby is their not-so-contrite response to the punishment. Krupp, the boys are sentenced to write a 100-page essay on “Good Citizenship.” Of course, that doesn’t happen. George Beard and Harold Hutchins, the merry pranksters of his wildly popular series, are back, this time as authors of a “graphic novel.” Punished by their principal, Mr. Familiar faces and familiar themes reappear in Pilkey’s newest addition to the Captain Underpants family.
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