Arthur's Underwear (book)

Arthur's Underwear (book)
Author	Marc Brown
Illustrator	Marc Brown
Publication date	September 1, 1999
Published by	Little, Brown and Company
ISBN	0316106194
Publication order
Preceded by Arthur Lost and Found (1998)	Followed by Arthur's Teacher Moves In (2000)

Arthur's Underwear is the twenty-fifth book in the Arthur Adventure series. It was written and illustrated by Marc Brown and published by Little, Brown and Company on September 1, 1999. It is based upon the first half of Episode 5 of Season 2 with the same title .

Trivia

Differences from the cartoon

• After Binky rips his pants in the classroom, Arthur imagines him playing baseball in boxers; although Arthur did not imagine it in the cartoon, and it did not reveal if Binky was wearing boxers or briefs, but only partially showed his purple underwear with green dots from the rear end.

• In Arthur's nightmare about being dressed up as Bionic Bunny and rescuing his friends being held captive by Mr. Ratburn as Verminator and then gets laughed at when he arrives, Arthur had on white briefs; but in the cartoon, he had on white boxers with red dots with the Bionic Bunny "B" on them.
• Also in the dream, Mr. Ratburn as Verminator was dressed in purple; but in the cartoon, he was dressed in green.

• When Buster has an underwear nightmare in the end, he was wearing orange Saturn boxers in the cartoon; but in this book, he was wearing white briefs.

Notes

• Even though Francine is a tomboy, it is likely that she might wear briefs for underwear as opposed to panties that girls normally wear.
• In the United Kingdom, this book was re-titled as Arthur's Pants, since the word "pants" in British refers to underpants, and the word "trousers" is used for pants worn over underpants. The book cover removed pictures of Arthur's friends laughing at him, and added spotlights.

The British version re-titled as Arthur's Pants