Author Meetup: Dav Pilkey

Dav Pilkey is the author of the Captain Underpants and Dog Man series - a favorite in our house with our reluctant reader.  (More like our reluctant sounder-outer)

I scored tickets to the Dog Man Do Good Tour in Southern Pines - about an hour southwest of Raleigh. It's called the Sandhills area because of the many golf courses - Pinehurst being the most well-known.

After about a 30 minute wait to get the SOLD OUT auditorium filled (with mostly young boys and their parents), we sat down and scoped out our swag bag!

The number one coolest item was the brand new book - SIGNED by the author himself! Other items included a red superhero cape, tattoos, stickers, bookmarks, coloring pad, and poster for the new book coming out in December. Best part we got TWO bags because I got a bag too!

We may have picked up another item and a new (to us) Captain Underpants book from the gift shop on our way out!

Dog Man - the head of a dog and the body of a police officer..... yup

Brock was thrilled to start flipping through the book!

Dav was introduced and gave a well done presentation how he discovered his love for drawing and reading - he used his cartoon animations to show how he was like a kid and the audience laughed it up! Brock really was attentive!

There was an option for a photo opportunity with Dav Pilkey after the presentation, but I didn't want to burn Brock out - it was already super late on a Friday night!

We snapped a picture with Captain Underpants instead!