The story tells how best friends Ook and Gluk stop a predatory twenty-first-century corporation from stripping the prehistoric world of its natural resources, thanks to learning kung-fu from Master Wong in 2222 A. This spring Billy Kim’s two children, both huge Pilkey fans, brought home from the public library The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, which was originally published by Scholastic in 2010. Links to most of my sources are inserted in the text.
Many of the accounts in the media presented similar versions of the story without raising questions or adding new information, even though the issues were more complicated than they reported.
But none of Pilkey’s forty-odd books have been withdrawn until this spring when The Adventures of Ook and Gluk Kung-fu Cavemen of the Future was challenged. His most famous series of graphic novels, Captain Underpants, has made the American Library Association’s banned book list several times. How he tells the stories he invents is as controversial in some circles as they are beloved in others. Pilkey drawing his most famous character, Captain Underpants
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