The popular comic book series is brought to life on stage. "Dog Man: The Musical" is a big hit with families and you can see it at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts for a limited time.

With apologies to Nathaniel Hawthorne and admirers of “The Scarlet Letter,” Dav Pilkey has a name for the next installment of his multi-million selling “Dog Man” children’s books series about a canine superhero.

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The longtime head of the children’s publishing giant Scholastic Inc. who presided over such bestsellers as J.

FILE - Dav Pilkey arrives at the premiere of "Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie" in Los Angeles on May 21, 2017. A graphic novel for children from the wildly popular Captain Underpants series, The Adventures of Ook and Glu," is being pulled from library and book store shelves after its publisher said it perpetuates passive racism. Scholastic said it had removed the book from its websites, stopped processing orders for it and sought a return of all inventory. “I hope that you, my readers, will forgive me, and learn from my mistake that even unintentional and passive stereotypes and racism are harmful to everyone,” he wrote. The move drew immediate reaction on social media from those who called it another example of “cancel culture.”

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2016 file photo, author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie appears at a celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day at Seattle's City Hall. Alexie is included in a list of authors who wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. All wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. The association does not formally count the number of times books are actually removed from a library shelf or from a school reading list. “There are actually two lines of objections to the Anne Frank diary,” Caldwell-Stone says.