When the laundry blows away one day, young Charlie packs a bag and goes searching for his favorite superhero underpants, the ones that say "Pow!" across the front. He treks the globe, but will he ever find his underwear?

This book had a funny title and sounded interesting. It is indeed silly, with rhyming text that flows easily. But it really has no redeeming message, and the book ends with Charlie swapping all the rest of his family's clothing for his underpants, which seems like a terrible move to teach children. 'Hey, my stuff is more important than anyone else's!' is usually not what parents or teachers try to impart to young ones.

The illustrations are whimsical, fitting with the silly story, but nothing terribly exciting. ( )

This book would be a good opener for a unit on geography because of all the places Charlie has to go in order to find his superhero underpants. I would recommend this book for a third grade level. Charlie's underpants are blown away by a windstorm along with other items of clothing of him family. He travels around the world and finds his family's clothes being worn by animals but does not find his underpants until he comes across a yeti that he has to trade all his family's clothes for his scarlet underpants then flies away home. ( )

A cute story of Charlie and his search around the world for his superhero underpants. My only question is: "Why does it rhyme until it gets to the line about the underpants at the end of each page? Why not rhyme the whole thing?" ( )

Unlike some reviewers, I liked the rhymes here. It can be hard to do a rhyming book, but in this book the rhymes seemed fairly unforced to me.

I found the story a bit over-the-top, and I still can't get over the fact that at the end of the book Charlie took his underpants from the yeti and just put them back on without washing them (EW! EW EW EW EW!), but the nieces *adored* the book so I'm giving it a fair four stars. I don't think it's quite as good as all that, but it's not bad or boring either. ( )

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