Dav Pilkey

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This article is about the popular children's author. For the member of Robots in Disguise, see Sue Denim

David "Dav" Pilkey (b.March 4, 1966), is a popular children's author and artist.

Pilkey was born in Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of four, Pilkey got kicked out of "Safety School" for "hurling objects out of the window." In elementary school, he was diagnosed as suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder. In high school, Pilkey was insulted and teased by teachers about his artwork and sense of humor. After entering a university, Pilkey's cartoon scribblings in his notebook caught the attention of a professor, who then encouraged Pilkey to illustrate children's books. Eventually, Pilkey wrote and illustrated his first children's book, World War Won, and got it published at the age of nineteen. He also created the Captain Underpants comics.

His odd nickname came from a spell of employment in a pizza parlor; the management spelt his name "Dav" on his card, and the mistake stuck. He published the Dumb Bunnies series of books under the nom de plume Sue Denim, a joke form of "pseudonym".

Pilkey wrote and illustrated the popular Captain Underpants series and The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby series. He also wrote and illustrated the Dumb Bunnies series (the humorous adventures of Momma Bunny, Baby Bunny, and Poppa Bunny), and the Dragon series. He wrote (but did not illustrate) the Ricky Ricotta series.

He married in 2005 to Sayuri.[1]

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[edit] Selected works

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[edit] Dragon series

  • Dragon's Halloween
  • Dragon Gets By
  • A Friend for Dragon
  • Dragon's Fat Cat
  • Dragon's Merry Christmas

[edit] Dumb Bunnies series

  • The Dumb Bunnies
  • The Dumb Bunnies' Easter
  • Make Way for Dumb Bunnies
  • The Dumb Bunnies Go to the Zoo

[edit] Captain Underpants series

[edit] Ricky Ricotta series

[edit] Big Dog & Little Dog series

  • The Complete Adventures of Big Dog and Little Dog
  • Big Dog and Little Dog
  • Big Dog and Little Dog Going for a Walk
  • Big Dog and Little Dog Getting in Trouble
  • Big Dog and Little Dog Wearing Sweaters
  • Big Dog and Little Dog Making a Mistake

[edit] Creature Feature series

  • Dogzilla
  • Kat Kong
  • Birdan

[edit] Other books

  • The Hallo-Wiener
  • Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving
  • Dog Breath!: The Horrible Trouble With Hally Tosis
  • God Bless the Gargoyles
  • The Silly Gooses
  • The Paperboy
  • The Moonglow Roll-O-Rama
  • When Cats Dream
  • Julius
  • World War Won
  • He Loves ME

[edit] Forthcoming

[edit] Video games

  • Rescue Raider 4000
  • Bounce-O-Rama 2000
  • Splashernator 2000
  • Matchinator 4000
  • Pilkeymon's Paintbox
  • Dav Pilkey's Puzzles o' Plenty

[edit] External link

[edit] Reference

  1. ^ http://www.pilkey.com/q-and-a.php
Persondata
NAME Pilkey, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pilkey, Dav; Denim, Sue
SHORT DESCRIPTION U.S. children's author
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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