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August 5th is National Underwear Day

It's the day for underwear, so no matter what you like - boxers or bikinis, stripes, polka dots, or plain - it's a day to celebrate! Here's a brief list of silly underwear books to put you in the mood.

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  • Jasper Rabbit and his mother go shopping one Thursday for much-needed new underwear. Bypassing the boring white pairs, Jasper begs his mom to get the peculiar looking but comfy neon green underwear-even if it resembles Frankenstein's monster. First…
    Picture Book, 2017New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2017] — J PICTURE REYNOLDS
  • Bare bear! Stop right there! Underwear! Under where? So begins the dialogue between a tired bear dad and a rambunctious bear cub who would rather play with his tighty whities than get into bed. Underwear makes great hair. It can even turn one into…
    Book, 2019Los Angeles ; New York : Disney - Hyperion, 2019. — J PICTURE HARNEY
  • The title of this book, combined with its cover illustration of two impish bears in a giant pair of underwear, hints at such a silly story that readers may be disappointed to find that it is, essentially, a counting book with a sharing theme. Two…
    Picture Book, 2014New York : Beach Lane Books, [2014] — J PICTURE GEHL
  • Underwear

    What We Wear Under There

    Swain, Ruth Freeman
    Underwear can be practical, it can be lucky, it can be just plain bizarre. And just one mention of it can make you giggle or blush. But if you really want to laugh out loud, take a step back in time and check out what people in past centuries used…
    Book, 2008New York : Holiday House, c2008. — J 391.42 SWAIN
  • Do not, under any circumstances, Or for any reason, Wear this underwear under the full moon. Do you understand? Get ready to howl with laughter as one rule-breaking, underwear-loving kid transforms into a—gasp!—UNDERWEARWOLF! Now he’s on an…
    Picture Book, 2026New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, ©2026. — J PICTURE STERER
  • Arthur is having nightmares about showing up to school in his underwear! So he tries all sorts of tricks to stay awake. If he stops sleeping, the bad dreams will stop too... right? Or will Arthur's nightmare of showing up to school without his pants…
    Picture Book, 1999Boston, MA. : Little, Brown, 1999. — J PICTURE BROWN
  • 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…
    Picture Book, 2025New York : Aladdin, 2025. — J PICTURE FREEDMAN
  • From Paleolithic loincloths to Henry VII's wives wearing underwear on their heads and beyond, this hilarious--and accurate--history of underwear (as comically modeled by chickens), tells the fascinating story of our most private clothing.
    Book, 2022New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2022. — J 391.4 HOLT
  • This charmingly absurd story delivers exactly what its title promises: an array of cheerful vegetables parading around in brightly colored undies. It sets up numerous oppositional relationships (clean/dirty, big/little, funny/serious) and includes a…
    Picture Book, 2015New York : Abrams Appleseed, 2015. — J PICTURE CHAPMAN
  • Something's Wrong!

    a Tale of a Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear

    John, Jory,
    Jeff the bear is sure he has forgotten something when he sets out from home, but none of the animals he meets initially inform him that he is only wearing his underwear, until he reaches his friend Anders the hare--who quickly thinks of a way to…
    Picture Book, 2021New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2021. — J PICTURE JOHN
  • When a dragon wearing very large underwear threatens the kingdom the Knights of the Round Table run away, leaving Sir Percival's young assistant, Cole, to face the beast.
    Picture Book, 2020New York : Random House, [2020] — J PICTURE ROTHMAN
  • Ahoy me hearties! Join the Pants Pirates on a special treasure hunt. Grab your cutlass and sail on the Pirate Ship Black Bloomer past angry crocs, sharks in fancy pants and through gurgling swamps on a quest to find...the Pants of Gold! This…
    Picture Book, 2013New York : Aladdin, 2013. — J PICTURE FREEDMAN
  • Puffer Fish wakes up one morning to find that his pirate underwear has been taken from the clothesline! So Octopants the octopus offers to help look for them. They check Lobster’s Laundry, look through Mermaid’s hair, and even stop by Mussel’s…
    Picture Book, 2022Wilton, CT : Tiger Tales, 2022. — J PICTURE SENIOR
  • When his busy father prompts him to get ready for an exciting family cookout, an exuberant young Pablo decides that he would rather not wear his pants and would have more fun finding other ways to use them.
    Picture Book, 2021New York : Viking, 2021. — J PICTURE GRANT
  • When Bear Cub finds a pair of tighty-whities hanging on a tree limb, "No name. No tag, " he decides to find the owner. And that means readers get a comprehensive, played-straight-but-giggle-inducing tour of animal tushies, each one covered with an…
    Picture Book, 2021New York : Random House, [2021] — J PICTURE MARTIN
  • Monster may be tiny, but he has one massive problem: his beloved briefs have fallen apart. Undie-less, the portly green poof ball and his mom must brave Undie World, a whole store devoted to just the behind! But Undie World's vast pattern selection…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2017. — J PICTURE BERGER
  • A diaper being thrown into the trash kicks off this upbeat celebration of panties. A pigtailed protagonist skips across the pages. She proclaims the myriad choices that come with being a big girl, from the pictured days of the week set to a pair of…
    Picture Book, 2012New York : Robin Corey Books, c2012. — J PICTURE MANUSHKIN
  • Big Boy Underpants offers a light, positive approach to motivate little boys to become toilet-trained. Snappy, rhyming text and bright, quirky illustrations sound the perfect note to encourage toddlers who want to wear big boy underpantsjust like…
    Picture Book, 2016New York : Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2016] — J PICTURE MANUSHKIN