Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets by Dav Pilkey takes about 51 minutes to read aloud (5,595 words, about 4 sentences a page), and it lands best with children aged 6-8.
Measured read-aloud timeabout 51 minutes
- Words
- 5,595
- Sentences a page
- 4
- Re-read tolerance
- 4/5survives a fortnight on repeat
- Vocabulary
- 3/5a few new words
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The useful verdict
Why Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets works
Book two, and the one children ask for by name, because the monster is a toilet that eats people. Structurally it is the same as book one - short chapters, an inset comic, a Flip-O-Rama - which is the point: a child who got through the first can predict this one and reads it faster, which is how reading confidence actually gets built.
Before you buy it
ATOS 4.7, harder than anything here except the Wimpy Kid books, so it is a listening book for most six-year-olds and a reading book for eights. Being eaten by a toilet is played for laughs but a small number of newly potty-confident children do not find it funny.
Themes: comics, superheroes, school, monsters, silly.
Same shape, new story
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Straight answers
Questions parents ask about Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
- How long does it take to read Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets aloud?
- About 51 minutes at an unhurried pace, from a word count of 5,595. Reading it fast shaves perhaps a third off; stopping for questions on every page can double it.
- What age is Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets actually for?
- Ages 6-8 in our testing, which is narrower than the publisher's range. With 4 sentences a page and vocabulary at 3 out of 5, it asks for that much attention span and no more.
- Does Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets survive being read on repeat?
- Yes. It survives a fortnight of nightly repeats, which is the real test.