Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made - Hardcover

Stephan Pastis

3.93

7,368 ratings by Goodreads

9781406339819: Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1406339814 ISBN 13: 9781406339819

Publisher: Walker, 2013

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Meet Timmy Failure, founder of the "best" detective agency in town - Total Failure, Inc. Timmy may only be eleven, but with the help of his polar bear, Total, he already has plans for world domination. Plans that will make his mother rich and unpaid bills a thing of the past. And plans that will defeat Corrina Corrina, "The One Whose Name Shall Not Be Uttered". But she's not going away. Riotously funny, Timmy Failure is sure to have readers in stitches.

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About the Author:

Stephan Pastis is the author-illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Timmy Failure series: Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, Timmy Failure: Now Look What You've Done and Timmy Failure: We Meet Again. Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made was a 2014 Booktrust Best Book Awards winner and listed as one of 100 Modern Children's Classics by The Sunday Times. Stephan is also the creator of the devoutly followed comic strip Pearls Before Swine, which appears in more than 700 newspapers worldwide. His compilation Larry in Wonderland debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list for paperback graphic novels. Stephan lives in northern California, USA.

Review:

Timmy Failure is a winner! --Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid Pastis has assembled an eccentric and funny cast (running gags revolve around Total's voracious appetite and a librarian who looks like one of the Hells Angels), yet there are also touching interactions to be found... --Publishers Weekly ...Readers should be simultaneously amused and touched by this quirky antihero. --Booklist The Pearls Before Swine cartoonist's frequent black-and-white illustrations help to cast Timmy's adventure in an appropriately ironic light. Timmy... has greatness in him. Just like all of us. --Kirkus Reviews Pastis crafts a great story starring an unforgettable protagonist whose unorthodox approach to detective work (and world domination) will have readers in stitches. For Timmy Failure, success is the only option! --Lincoln Peirce, creator of the Big Nate series Timmy Failure is a winner! --Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid ...readers should be simultaneously amused and touched by this quirky antihero. --Booklist Pastis has assembled an eccentric and funny cast (running gags revolve around Total's voracious appetite and a librarian who looks like one of the Hells Angels), yet there are also touching interactions to be found, particularly between Timmy and his mother. --Publishers Weekly Pastis crafts a great story starring an unforgettable protagonist whose unorthodox approach to detective work (and world domination) will have readers in stitches. For Timmy Failure, success is the only option! --Lincoln Peirce, creator of the Big Nate series ...readers should be simultaneously amused and touched by this quirky antihero. --Booklist Pastis crafts a great story starring an unforgettable protagonist whose unorthodox approach to detective work (and world domination) will have readers in stitches. For Timmy Failure, success is the only option! --Lincoln Peirce, creator of the Big Nate series Pastis crafts a great story starring an unforgettable protagonist whose unorthodox approach to detective work (and world domination) will have readers in stitches. For Timmy Failure, success is the only option! --Lincoln Peirce, creator of the Big Nate series

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