The gentle scariness, the mysteriousness of how the underwear keeps coming back, and the happy ending makes it a fantastic book for the whole family to snuggle up and read again and again.īe careful though, turn you back on your family after reading this book to them, even for a second, and you may just find yourself getting hit with a flying pair of underwear and little ones gleefully shouting, “Creepy Pair of Underwear is out to get you! Ahhhhh!”*Ĭreepy Pair of Underwear! is masterfully styled and combines suspense, light spookiness, and winning humor to deliver a laugh-out-loud and genuinely fun story.

The constantly changing Frankenstein’s monster faces on the underwear give an extra dash of humor and lightheartedness. The Twilight-Zone-esque, black-and-white scenes dramatically exaggerate the creepy underwear’s bright green glow. He comes up with a wonderfully creative solution that brings a fun and satisfying conclusion for Jasper, his creepy underwear, and his brave readers.Ĭreepy Pair of Underwear! will have you and your little ones laughing from the announcing of the title to the very end. What’s a bunny to do?įortunately for us readers, Jasper was written as a very clever and capable character. He’s feeling good, he’s ready for bed, he turns out the light, and all is well.īut it is not until he is alone at night in the pitch black of his room that he realizes that it is really dark – even if he is a big rabbit. Resolved, Jasper takes an extreme measure and finally succeeds in preventing the undies from coming back. He literally packs them up and sends them to China, cuts them up into little pieces, but shockingly and creepily - they keep coming back! Each time the creepy underwear returns, it elicits more and more delighted and slightly scared squeals and giggles from its readers. When Jasper comes home from school he hears scraping and scratching… and it is coming from his dresser! Impossibly, he finds the creepy pair of underwear is back! This won’t do. Whew! Jasper and his readers can now breathe a sigh of relief. Jasper throws them away! He’s done messing around with creepy underwear. Image Courtesy of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

From Creepy Pair of Underwear! by Aaron Reynolds and Illustrated by Peter Brown.

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