Mistakes Were Made (Timmy Failure #1) - Free Preview of Chapters 1-4

Timmy Failure

by Stephan Pastis

Meet "detective" Timmy Failure, star of the kids' comedy of the year. Created by New York Times best-selling cartoonist Stephan Pastis. Take eleven-year-old Timmy Failure - the clueless, comically self-confident CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the nation. Add his impressively lazy business partner, a very large polar bear named Total. Throw in the Failuremobile - Timmy's mom's Segway - and what you have is Total Failure, Inc., a global enterprise destined to make Timmy so rich his mother won't have to stress out about the bills anymore. Of course, Timmy's plan does not include the four-foot-tall female whose name shall not be uttered. And it doesn't include Rollo Tookus, who is so obsessed with getting into "Stanfurd" that he can't carry out a no-brainer spy mission. From the offbeat creator of Pearls Before Swine comes an endearingly bumbling hero in a caper whose peerless hilarity is accompanied by a whodunit twist. With perfectly paced visual humor, Stephan Pastis gets you snorting with laughter, then slyly carries the joke a beat further - or sweetens it with an unexpected poignant moment - making this a comics-inspired story (the first in a new series) that truly stands apart from the pack.

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Published January 1, 2013

About the author

Stephan Pastis was born in 1968 and raised in San Marino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 with a degree in political science. Although he had always wanted to be a syndicated cartoonist, Pastis realized that the odds of syndication were slim, so he entered UCLA Law School in 1990 and became an attorney instead. He practiced law in the San Francisco Bay area from 1993 to 2002. While an attorney, he began submitting various comic strip concepts to all of the syndicates, and, like virtually all beginning cartoonists, got his fair share of rejection slips. Then, in 1997, he began drawing Pearls Before Swine, which he submitted to the syndicates in mid-1999. In December, 1999, he signed a contract with United.
Pearls Before Swine debuted in newspapers in January, 2002, and Pastis left his law practice in August of that year. Pearls Before Swine was nominated in 2003, 2004 and 2007 as "Best Newspaper Comic Strip" by the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) and won the award in 2004 and 2007. Pastis lives with his family in Northern California.

Reviews

[Joel K · Rating 5 out of 5]

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made is about a ordinary kid that's not so ordinary. Timmy Failure is a detective that solves cases for a price. He is the CEO of Failure inc. but since his partner total is in his company, based on reason he had to rename it Total Failure inc. get the joke. His best friend's name is Rollo Tookus, and all he cares about is good grade, and Stanfurd which is Stanford but in Timmy Failure's world. Then there's Timmy's arch nemesis... Corrina Corrina. Yes her first and last name are the same. And last but not least his partner in crime Total. Total is a 500 pound Arctic polar bear. When he lived in the Arctic its started to melt so he couldn't get much food, so he travel all the way from the ice caps to Timmy's house just for one of his cat's food. Timmy finds out about a new case. But this time its personal, because someone has stole the Failure Mobile.(his moms Segway) So He and Total must figure out this mystery before time runs out and there's only one thing in is way........SHENANIGANS. The reason I love this book series so much is because they don't continue with one story line. Each book has a different story to tell with random funny stuff along the way. I recommend this book series to 6th grade under.

[Sophia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is hilarious! I can't wait to read the next one! :)

[Victoria · Rating 2 out of 5]

A silly kids’ book with some drawings, but alas not all that funny. Young Timmy Failure fancies himself a detective and, along with hose polar bear sidekick Total, usually misses the mark and gets into trouble.

[Tobias · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the book, "Timmy Failure: Mistakes Where Made", like it says in the title Timmy makes mistakes. So Timmy thinks that school isn't important and he hates the smart girls because he thinks that his time is more valuable if spent with his detective company. If anybody has a problem or is supicous he'll 'help' them out. The problem is he has a rival (one of the smart kids). Also he doesn't realize how bad of a detective he is. For example, he had a problem candy stolen from Harry and he saw Harry's little brother eating candy and he wrote down Harry's brother likes candy. To find out some more epic fails and stupid things that happen to Timmy Failure you'll have to take the time and read this book.

[Garret]

this book was pretty funny and cleaver at the same time because he is trying to solve mysteries and its funny cause there is pictures every now and then and pet bear helps him. its a pretty easy book to read cause there isnt many words per page but i would tell people to read it cause it is a pretty funny book and easy to read also

[Minty Hardback · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like this book!It is humorous, creative and... Yeah there's just no more words for it really!I love the the Stephan Pastis wrote it,the way the whole book is from Timmy's point of view.I love all the characters in this book and I especially love the prologue!I would definitely read this again!But it still doesn't over lap Harry Potter or Skulduggery Pleasant,but still a GREAT read

[Amy A · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book for middle school children. It is comically lacking in positive character education but the vocabulary is high.

[Tommy]

was good

[Landon]

I realy like it in my library i'm waiting for the second one.

[Naomi · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[Raphael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love it! It is the funny genre type of book.

[jAck · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was good. Some parts were strange but the plot was decent and it was funny in some parts. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[Makenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the book but it sorta was confusing at some points.

[Jakob Seelig · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great follow-up for the Wimpy Kid series. Pastis writes with a similar style, but addresses deeper emotional topics in a way digestible for elementary school readers.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute, first in a series middle reader created by the "Pearls Before Swine" guy. Love the characters, especially Flo, the librarian & of course, the Polar Bear.

[Jake Koster · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very amazing Very funny book Great for kids and middle schoolers alike