8 Books That Were Banned For Insane Reasons

Take a look at the cover for The Adventures Of Captain Underpants and hazard a guess why the book might have been banned. There's probably one reason that you're thinking of, but you're hesitant to commit to it because the notion is just too absurd. Surely not... surely the book wasn't banned because of…

Yeah, you're right. Partial nudity. Despite the fact that children's book character Captain Underpants looks more like an egg than a human being (or a vaguely more human version of Patrick from SpongeBob), multiple books in the series have been repeatedly blocked from libraries and schools for their depiction of the titular hero.

The books are written for kids many of whom find the very concept of the word “underpants” hilarious, which is incredibly effective when it comes to getting kids that age to actually read something. It's especially baffling when you consider that young children have less of a concept of what nudity is than teenagers and adults do.