When the school principal discovers incorrigible fourth graders George Beard and Harold Hutchins running over ketchup packets with their skateboards in the gym, he punishes them with the assignment of writing a 100-page essay on good citizenship, and ge cautions them against turning in another comic book about Captain Underpants. Instead, they invent Super Diaper Baby--an even younger superhero.

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The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby is about a baby who turned into a superhero after falling into a bucket of juice that gives people and animals Captain Underpants’s powers when they drink it. Danger Dog also drank the juice and got powers, too.

My favorite part of the book was when Danger Dog couldn’t go into the hospital because they were afraid he would pee on the floor, so he put on a diaper and could then go in the hospital. Then they started calling him Diaper Dog. It’s funny because seeing a dog in a diaper is different and because it also makes me think of pee and poo.

I also liked it when Deputy Dangerous got turned into poo and Diaper Dog started calling him Deputy Doo-Doo, which is another name for poo-poo. The writer knows that kids like to make jokes about pee and poo, so this is a good book for kids.

The story was easy to understand except that my dad had to explain the joke about not making fun of the name of the planet Uranus. It’s because some people say it like “your anus,” which is another name for “your butt hole.” I thought that was pretty funny when my dad explained it, but that’s not how I say “Uranus” so I didn’t get the joke at first.

I also didn’t understand what’s funny about going to Mars on the way back from Uranus because Mars doesn’t have anything to do with pee, poo, or butts. They stopped on Mars to get refreshments at a place called Starbutts--and that was the joke, but I didn’t get it until my dad told me they were making fun of Starbucks. I don’t drink coffee, but my mom said Starbucks is too expensive--and she drinks a lot of coffee.

I liked the drawings in the book because even though a grown-up drew them, they looked like a “kid drawing”--and because kids like to draw diapers, poo, underwear, and butts. It was a very funny book.

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