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Captain Underpants spin-off, The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, pulled for ‘passive racism’ – ABC News
A spin-off of the wildly popular Captain Underpants series is being pulled from library and book store shelves after its publisher said it “perpetuates passive…
A graphic novel for children that was a spin-off of the wildly popular Captain Underpants series is being pulled from library and book store shelves after its publisher said it perpetuates passive racism.
- Author Dav Pilkey said the book was wrong and harmful to my Asian readers
- Scholastic said it had removed the book from its websites, stopped processing orders for it and sought a return of all inventory
- The decision came after a Korean American father of two young children started a petition asking…
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