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  • Jan. 7: Orrin Pilkey is a James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.

    USA TODAY online chats 2010

  • Orrin Pilkey, a Duke University emeritus professor of coastal geology, said the grants have been "meaningless," adding that many local governments "don't want to lose buildings and start to shrink" their tax base.

    Claims Flood Insurance Fund Leslie Scism 2011

  • If those boys "have never read a complete book in their lives," even when their librarian knows about Pilkey and Horowitz, then they must be making an effort to resist.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • In Channelview, Texas, TheAdventures of Super Diaper Baby, by George Beard, Harold Hutchins and Dav Pilkey, was removed from grade schools after parents complained when their 6-year-old was suspended for calling a classmate "poo-poo head," Maycock says.

    Book battles heat up over censorship vs. selection in school 2011

  • If those boys "have never read a complete book in their lives," even when their librarian knows about Pilkey and Horowitz, then they must be making an effort to resist.

    How Come They Can’t Find Any Boy Books? 2009

  • So if you want Captain Underpants you look under "C" and not "P" for Dav Pilkey; if you want the Magic Treehouse books you look under "M" and not "O" for Mary Pope Osborne.

    Speaking as one old fart to another Roger Sutton 2009

  • His new graphic novel, "The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen From the Future," published Aug. 10, continues the ritual Pilkey started with Captain ...

    'Captain Underpants' Author Dav Pilkey Expands Children's Book Empire With 'The Adventures of Ook and Gluk' 2010

  • His new graphic novel, "The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen From the Future," published Aug. 10, continues the ritual Pilkey started with Captain Underpants 13 years ago -- of young kids cracking books 'spines to read the "action" and "laffs" promised on their covers and to snicker and snort uncontrollably.

    'Captain Underpants' Author Dav Pilkey Expands Children's Book Empire With 'The Adventures of Ook and Gluk' 2010

  • I remember what happnened to Dav Pilkey when Spam (the canned ham stuff) appeared on the cover of the First Dumb Bunny Book.

    For reals? Roger Sutton 2008

  • Pilkey is bringing back his fourth-grade narrators minus their superhero on Aug. 10 in "The Adventures of Ook and Gluk," about two kung-fu lovin 'caveboys sucked into the future.

    Can Fart Jokes Get Boys Reading? 2010

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