March Picture book of the month: Pirates Love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort

[RachelMumsnet]

Our March picture book of the month is the latest book in the wonderful Underpants series, which must boast the most extensive collection of Y-Fronts fiction has ever seen. We've seen Aliens Love Underpants, Dinosaurs Love Underpants and now Pirates.

Pirates Love Underpants follows the pirates as they sail on the pirate ship Black Bloomer past angry crocs, sharks in fancy knickers, and through gurgling swamps, on a quest to find...the fabled Pants of Gold.

Read more about and apply for one of 50 free copies. Then post your reviews on this thread. Everyone who feeds back about the book will be entered into a draw to win one of 10 sets of books from the Underpants series.

[SPBInDisguise]

Done! We love the series and dd currently obsessed with pirates. So this would be wonderful. By the way there is a placeholder LINK instead of an actual link on that page

[DuchessofMalfi]

I bought DS Aliens in Underpants recently - he loves it, and DD's been reading Aliens in Underpants Save the World at school. Great books, with lots of humour that appeals to parents too! I think we'll look out for this one and the Dinosaur one in the library and join in the chat :)

[sarahredfern]

My DD has the alien and underpants book after going through the lovin aliens phase, at the minute it gets read cover to cover everynight at bedtime :-) x

[Littleorangetree]

My son loves pirates and we can't wait to read Pirates Love Underpants. He loves this series of books! They're well written and funny.

[mumandboys123]

Ooh, we have Aliens Love Underpants - didn't realise there were more. We'll certainly be buying them!

[JambalayaCodfishPie]

Done! We love the underpants series in this house! I've even used them at work. (Secondary school!)

[PurpleCrutches]

Done - looks like a series DS will enjoy

[ClaraOswinOswald]

Done and inspired to go as a pirate with a big pair of (paper) underpants on World Book Day. Thank you. :)

[jac22]

I imagine my DS would love these. Can't believe that I didn't know the whole series .

[majjsu]

These books are fun and love the colourful pictures

[reynolta]

Both of my children love Aliens loves underpants we read it overnight before bed, looking forward to receding the pirates one, and how fab that there is a series

[tinastinytots]

We've read aliens love underpants many times didn't relise there was more something to look for now at library
Thanks

[Tincletoes]

Done, fingers crossed as we have loved the first 2!

[JammySplodger]

Great! We love granny's spotted bloomers, will look out for the Pirates one too.

[AcademicOwl]

DS has enjoyed the hard-board aliens books since he was tiny (about a year old!). Loves the pictures, loves the rhyming story. He's now 2 and a half, so I think pirates may be his next new best thing!

[hmphybear]

My daughter loves these books (currently just learned to say the word dinosaur - though its more like dinesor, but I think that's awesome for 19mths) and she thinks its funny that dinosaurs wear pants and that is her favourite book at the moment, so looking forward to getting the others in the series so that she can learn the word Pirate! ;)

[Blatherskite]

DD loved Aliens Love Underpants and she loves Pirates - this should be perfect :)

[Blatherskite]

Our book arrived this morning so once DD got home from Pre school, we sat down to read it.

It's a fun book to read, lots of scope for silly Pirate voices and the pictures have lots of funny details in which DD enjoyed pointing out (she especially loved the parrot in pants and I liked the Alien in Underpants tattoo on the Pirates arm) and I felt like it was just the right length.

As soon as I was finished, DD demanded I read it "again, again, again" so I did. Then she wanted it read "again, again, again" again. I suggested she read it to herself and she had a really good go, remembering a lot of the story very well. For her to have picked up that much after just two readings, it must really have captured her imagination.

I can see this being read again - at least once - at bedtime too. A really lovely book. Definitely in very much the same theme as Alien's love Underpants etc but still a lovely book in it's own right too

[Clareperquin]

Alex really loved Pirates Love Underpants. He laughed and laugh about the bit where they visited 'Big Knickers Bay'. Definitely going out to buy the rest of the books in the series.

[clux73]

Hello
Thanks for sending us this book. My two daughters both absolutely love it. There favourite bit is seeing the dog and cat wearing pants, especially the dogs red fur lined pants! They also like looking at the pants on the inside cover and then checking who is wearing them. We already have Aliens love Underpants so were looking forward to the ending where it tells you to be careful of something, in this case making sure your pants don't fall down in public! Great quick read which I know we'll read a lot.

[MissRee]

What a wonderful book! Sat and read it with DD (14mo) last night before bed and she absolutely loved it. She was pointing to the characters (she especially liked the parrot and the crocodiles) and found it highly amusing when I was doing the "snap snap" for the crocodiles!

I think I'll definitely be investing in some of the other books in the series

[MissRee]

PS... I also think DS (7) will enjoy reading this to his little sister!

[stewaris]

I was on holiday when the book arrived but I saw, and read the book, to my only grandson yesterday. I read it at least half a dozen times before he worked his way around my partner, his dad, his mum and my daughter. He just loved it and I think it will be a favourite for a long time. Thanks so much for the book. I confess I read it before I gave it to him and also read bits out to my partner as well

[Knittingnovice]

DS (4y8m) and DD(3) loved this. The only copy of aliens love underpants we have been able to get our hands on was a dual language one from the library.

They loved the humour, DH was heard chuckling as I read it to them & DS has asked for help sounding out and blending the words like he has been learning in school.

A winner in the Knittingnovice household

[Pozzled]

We were really pleased to get our copy last week. DD1 (4.8) had an initial reaction of 'Oh, not pirates!' which surprised me. She used to be very in to pirates, but recently has been more into fairies (incidently, is there a 'Fairies Love Underpants'? If not, can that be the next one?).

Once I started reading it, though, she really enjoyed it, especially picking out details from the colourful pictures. She loves choosing her favourite pair of pants from the selection inside the covers, and looking at the different pirates. She did get a bit upset at the page with the crocodiles, though, because the telescope was falling in the water and would be lost! She was also very amused by the second group of pirates falling over their own underpants, the humour is perfect for her age.

DD2 is a little young for it yet (21 months) but even she enjoyed the bright pictures, and was able to select her favourite underpants from the selection!