Timmy Failure: The Maximum Greatness Collection: Books 1-7

Timmy Failure #1-7

by Stephan Pastis

The complete collected memoirs of Timmy Failure are contained within this boxed set. That's seven episodes of New York Times best-selling greatness. You have been warned.

Meet Timmy Failure. You may know him as the founder, president, and CEO of Total Failure, Inc. -- the best detective agency in town. Perhaps even the nation. Timmy's seen a lot in his eleven years. Maybe too much. But luckily for you, the tales of his genius have been recorded by Timmy himself. All seven of his comically overconfident capers, combining hilarity and heart, are now available together in a deceptively sweet, outrageously funny collection by Stephan Pastis, making the perfect gift for Timmy fans new and old.

Includes:
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Timmy Failure: Now Look What You've Done
Timmy Failure: We Meet Again
Timmy Failure: Sanitized for Your Protection
Timmy Failure: The Book You're Not Supposed to Have
Timmy Failure: The Cat Stole My Pants
Timmy Failure: It's the End When I Say It's the End

Genres: Audiobook

Paperback

Published October 8, 2019

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

[Cynthia Drake · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't overstate what a masterpiece this series is, and I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it. I read these books with my 6 and 10 year old sons over the course of a few weeks because we were all so riveted.

It's pretty rare that I get more excited than my kids to read their bedtime stories, but this series grabbed my heartstrings in a major way.

We laughed (like belly laughed out loud, rereading passages over and over with tears running down our cheeks) and we sobbed at the end to say goodbye to such a dear friend.

The stories were crafted in a very masterful way as to meet kids where they are as adventurous, mischievous beings, but also in a way that adults can see the larger story arc and what it means to forgive people for their infinite "failures."

[Yukari Hammons · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious!

[Ash Gayler · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very good and funny book about a detective.