David "Dav" Pilkey (b.March 4 1966), is a popular children's author and artist.
Pilkey was born in Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of four, Pilkey got kicked out of "Safety School" by "hurling objects out of the window." In elementary school, he was diagnosed as suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder. In high school, Pilkey was insulted and teased by teachers about his artwork and sense of humor. When Pilkey was in college, he was scribbling cartoons in his notebook, then his professor saw the drawings and encouraged Pilkey to illustrate children's books. Pilkey wrote and illustrated his first children's book, World War Won, and got it published at the age of nineteen. He also created the Captain Underpants comics.
His odd nickname came from a spell of employment in a pizza parlor; the management spelt his name "Dav" on his card, and the mistake stuck. He published the Dumb Bunnies series of books under the nom de plume Sue Denim, a joke form of “pseudonym”.
Pilkey wrote and illustrated the popular Captain Underpants series, the Ricky Ricotta series, and The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby series. He also wrote the Dumb Bunnies series (the humorous adventures of Momma Bunny, Baby Bunny, and Poppa Bunny), and the Dragon series.
He is married in 2005, to Sayuri (pronounce Sy-you-dee)
He currently lives in with a herd of buffalo in Eugene,Oregon.
Other books by Pilkey
- Dog Breath
- The Hallo-Wiener
- The Paperboy
- Dogzilla
- Kat Kong
- Twas the Night before Thanksgiving
- The Moonglow Roll-O-Rama
- The Silly Gooses
- When Cats Dream
- God Bless the Gargoyles
- the Big Dog and Little Dog series
- Julius
External link
- (Dav Pilkey's Extra Crunchy Website o' Fun) (official)