Dragons Love Underpants

by Claire Freedman, Ben Cort (Illustrator)

Overview

Dragons steal underpants from the citizens of the kingdom in this hilarious installment in the Underpants picture book series.

Huge scaly dragons roamed the land
in long gone days of olde.
They loved to wear big underpants
in colors bright and bold.

With flaming holes in their undies, a pack of underwear-loving dragons embark on a knicker-nicking adventure through the Kingdom of Pantasia!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781665968645
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	08/05/2025
Series:	The Underpants Books
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Claire Freedman is the author of several picture books, including Pirates Love Underpants!; Dinosaurs Love Underpants!; Aliens Love Underpants!; Snuggle Up, Sleepy Ones; One Magical Day; A Magical Christmas; Dilly Duckling, and My Grandparents Love Me. She lives in Essex, England.

Ben Cort is an award-winning illustrator whose books have been translated into over thirty languages and have sold millions of copies around the world. He illustrated the phenomenally popular Underpants series written by Claire Freedman, which has inspired a BAFTA-nominated animation and a theater show. Another of Ben and Claire’s picture books, Monstersaurus, was also turned into a successful stage show which toured the UK. As a lifelong Beatles fan, Ben was thrilled to be commissioned to illustrate Ringo Starr’s Octopus’s Garden as a children’s picture book. Visit him online at BenCort.com.

Editorial Reviews

2025-04-04
Who knew dragons fancied scanties?

In days of yore, dragons soar through the skies sporting colorful underpants. Unfortunately, their drawers don’t last long due to the dragons’ penchant for breathing fire. The Kingdom of Pantasia, ruled by “pants-mad King Top-Bot” (referring to the British term for underpants), is never in short supply of shorts. Storming in to purloin its vast stores, the scaly beasts terrorize the villagers and even beat back the king’s knight, Sir Y-Front (referring to another British term). Worse, they make “brief” work of the king, flying off with him and threatening to “scorch him on the rear” unless they receive “piles of pants.” Happily, resourceful Princess Tilly has a plan that results in a brilliant solution—”METAL pants!” (Inflammable, don’t you know?) The dragons are so overjoyed—”These pants will last FOREVER!”—that they release the king. Afterward, that esteemed royal throws a grand feast, attended by everyone, including the dragons, now wearing their fancy new drawers. Told in rollicking (though uneven) verse, this U.K. import mines some mild laughs from the subject of undies; it might even persuade youngsters who are still in diapers to be fierce like dragons and take that step. Use of the Briticismspants andY-Front might perplex little ones this side of the pond, but the energetic images of the colorful dragons in their oversize, patterned underwear make up for that point. Human characters are diverse.

Goofy antics for those who delight in bathroom humor.(Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews