Captain Underpants spin-off, The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, pulled for ‘passive racism’ – ABC News

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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