Some surprising news sends Timmy Failure on a hilarious caper as the New York Times best-selling series continues.Behold! You are all about to be witnesses to greatness.In this fourth volume of Timmy Failure’s memoirs, Timmy is forced to hit the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy’s mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and smells-like-a-tangerine criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It’s a world gone mad, where good becomes bad, and Timmy Failure is a condemned man.Someone call the authorities. . . .
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.
Timmy and his mom are helping Doorman Dave move to Chicago. Molly’s family is going along for vacation. Timmy is hired to find the money missing from YIP YAP. Timmy and Molly partner up, take off around Chicago and let’s just say it’s Avery exciting book! Oh, can’t forget Total!
These books just get better and zanier and more fun as they go. Timmy is legit insane, but there is a lot of method behind his madness. We get a deeper look into the life of Molly Moskins and meet her family, which explains a lot about her dive into crime. The best parts of the book revolve around her in fact. I am still laughing a lot and thoroughly enjoying the insanity.
DEZINFIKOVANO RADI VAŠE ZAŠTITE-TIMI PROMAŠAJ 4-STEFAN PASTIS 🕵♂️🕵♀️U četvrtom delu serijala ukraden je novac koji su deca skupljala za dečaka kome su potrebne knjige. 🕵♀️🕵♂️Timi Promašaj kreće u potragu za lopovom,ali ovog puta u Čikagu. Ovog puta ima još jednog pomoćnika pored polarnog medveda Potpuna. To je Moli Moskins,koja miriše na žele od grožđa. 🕵♂️🕵♀️Pored svih smešnih dogodovština knjiga se bavi i nekim ozbiljnim temama. 🕵♀️🕵♂️Šta planiraju mama i portir Dejv? Zašto je Molina porodica ne baš savršena? Da li detektivi plešu? 🕵♂️🕵♀️A tu je i posebna poslastica,Timijevo tumačenje zašto je žena izbola muža vilama. Reč je o slici Granta Vuda Američka gotika 😁 🕵♀️🕵♂️Ovaj serijal je sve zabavniji i sve bolji ❤️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #7sensesofabook #stefenpastis #dezinfikovanoradivašezaštite
Тими Провала и Мечо Тотала се завръщат за четвърти пореден път в „Светът е полудял!”. Дневникът на Тими, подобаващо онагледен с авторски илюстрации от самия г-н Провала, отново ни дава възможността да надникнем зад кулисите на детективската агенция „Тотал Провал” ООД. Както може да се очаква, Мечо Тотала е на линия и ще придружи своя съдружник на една изпълнена с престъпни приключения и преживелици ваканция в провинцията. Прочетете ревюто на "Книжни Криле":
Timmy Failure remains incomprehensibly a genius. Nobody can make sense of a case like Timmy, literally no one. As Timmy and Molly Moskins dance the night away, the rest of us will just have to wait for book #5. Thank you Stephan Pastis.
It was a really good book and it really shows you how Timmy felt about his new experiences but by the end of the book it got a little boring because it got a little repetitive so I didn't finish it. I found it repetitive because the same thing happens in every book!
Flip Fiasco is een detective en heeft er schoon genoeg van dat slechteriken worden beloond en goeierds worden gestraft. In deel 4, dat los gelezen kan worden van de voorgaande, gaat hij op zoek naar de dief van het geld voor een goed doel. Hij moet op vakantie met zijn moeder en met een nieuwe vriendin en haar gezin. Die vriendin blijkt ook nog eens een dochter te hebben met wie hij niet om wil gaan.
De lay-out is relatief rustiger dan de gemiddelde graphic novel, waardoor de korte hoofdstukken prettig lezen. Het verhaal is leuk bedacht en er is een doorlopende verhaallijn die niet diep gaat en onlogische elementen heeft. Af en toe overdrijft Flip met zijn detectivebureau en het blijft in het midden hoe oud Flip is.
Aan het taalgebruik valt op dat er moeilijke woorden worden gebruikt die waarschijnlijk letterlijk zijn vertaald, waardoor kinderen van 7-9 jaar verschillende woorden en zinsconstructies niet zullen begrijpen. Een leeftijdsaanduiding vanaf 9 of 10 jaar zou al passender zijn. Daarnaast zou het kunnen zijn dat volwassen bepaald woordgebruik door een letterlijke vertaling uit het Amerikaansengels niet wenselijk zullen ervaren.
Voor het lezen was ik wel bekend met dit genre, maar niet met deze serie. Na het lezen vind ik deze leuker en beter in elkaar zitten dan Het leven van een Loser en Max Kruimel, die voor oudere kinderen bedoeld zijn. Voor veel kinderen is het weer een aantrekkelijk deel in de Flip Fiasco-serie, het bevat humor en is voor de juiste doelgroep makkelijk te lezen.
Met dank aan uitgeverij De Fontein voor het recensie-exemplaar
In deel 4 van de serie gaat Flip op zoek naar de dief van het geld voor een goed doel. Het boek leest vlot, schrijfstijl is prima en bevat ook wat humor. Lay-out van binnen is rustig waardoor het prettiger leest. Het verhaal zit leuk in elkaar, al vind ik dat Flip af en toe wel een beetje overdrijft met zijn detectivebureau. Het boek is los te lezen van de eerdere delen, wanneer er wordt teruggekeken naar een eerder avontuur wordt dit uitgelegd. De serie vind ik beter dan 'Max Kruimel' en 'Leven van een loser', dit boek bevat iets meer inhoud. Voor de juiste doelgroep is het wederom weer een leuk boek!
Highly enjoyable, even for an adult. A lot of the jokes are probably more likely to make a grown up smile but there is also plenty of humour for the younger readers. Timmy is a very well written character because he is a detective through and through. He is also highly imaginative and really has a knack for pulling you into his fantasies. The ending is a bit rough on the edges, but overall this was a lot of fun.
Als je er eentje gelezen hebt, wil je ze allemaal lezen! Hilarische momenten met detective Flip Fiasco vanuit Frankrijk met een tikkeltje James Bond gehalte!
I love the Timmy Failure books. Timmy is so ridiculously self-important and seemingly blind to what's going on around him (although perhaps he's more aware than he likes to let on). I love how he comes up with wild theories about the 'crimes' he's investigating, while everyone around him is coming up with the likely and obvious answer.
I also love how we see the inner lives of Timmy and his friends just by seeing their interactions with family members. It happens with Timmy in each book (we see in this one that an impending event is provoking him to act out), but we also find out more about Molly's home life and see why she acts the way she does. Really, I think that's why I love these books. They are so light-hearted but have real human touches throughout.
Stephan Pastis just gets funnier as he goes along with Timmy failure Sanitized for Your Protection. The humour in this book is double the one in the second which is fitting because this is the fourth book.
In this book our hero Timmy goes on a road trip along side his spoon smuggling classmate Molly Moskins and the rest of her family which include mum, dad and little brother Micah. Timmy gets closer to Molly and actually realizes that he likes her or at least stops denying it. Which I really like. I also enjoyed that cute scene where they're dancing but Timmy says he doesn't like dancing with her and Molly cries... It was just so real! I love how Stephan just got sooo real.
The solution to the mystery for this one kinda fell flat for me in this one, but as usual Timmy is outrageously hilarious, a naughty little booger, and a sympathetic character all in one. As a Midwesterner, the highlight for me in this one is Timmy's analysis of Grant Wood's iconic painting, American Gothic.
#4 in the Timmy Failure series. "Detective" Timmy Failure is back with a cross-country misadventure. He pairs with Molly Moskins and causes chaos in Chicago while chasing down a thief. The conclusion is "classic" Timmy Failure as he explains who is responsible for the crime. A quick read with some laughs!
I think this is where my previous knowledge of the series ends. I fell off the series after reading this book a few years ago, and re-reading it now, I can see why. "Sanitized for Your Protection" pales in comparison to the previous installment, "We Meet Again", one of the finest children's books I've read in quite a while. This book tries to replicate the more ambitious storytelling and increased emotional vulnerability that made the last book work so well, to mixed results. Reading it, you can't help but feel like it should work...and yet the whole affair feels slightly off somehow. We pick up with Timmy shortly after the conclusion of "We Meet Again", with his mother now dating Doorman Dave. Timmy, his mother, Dave, and Molly Moskins' family are all going on a trip to Chicago while a charitable club at Timmy's school reports that all of its money has been stolen. After Timmy hears his mother and Dave talking about something (not revealed until the end of the book), he and Molly (who Timmy is still entirely convinced is a world-class felon) make a break for it, and try to solve the crime themselves on the streets of Chicago. Unsurprisingly, the book is still very funny. From the charity being named Yergei Ismavitch Plimkin, You Are Poor (YIP YAP), to every single encounter with the poor hotel clerk (every page of this had me doubled over), Pastis is still throwing some heavy-hitters, though he's not quite on his A-game here, a real shame for one of my favorite cartoonists and children's authors. The emotional stakes are front and center here as well, specifically Timmy's relationship with side character Molly Moskins. Molly has an enormous crush on Timmy, and Timmy finds her highly irritating and also thinks she's a criminal. Like with Timmy and Corrina Corrina, there may be some buried feelings there ("I'm so happy I could kiss herhug her tell her she did a nice job") but that's not really explored. It also gets surprisingly heavy for an 8-12 book at points. I can't say a lot without spoiling it, but some scenes in the book genuinely caught me off guard with how emotional they are. This is a perfectly serviceable kid's book on its own. Unfortunately, it has the misfortune that it comes right after a fantastic kid's book and alongside Pastis's "Pearls Before Swine", the best currently running newspaper comic. It feels like Pastis is writing just as good as ever here, and yet somehow it feels wrong nonetheless.
Mijn hemel, hoe ben ik door dit boek heengekomen.... De hoofdpersoon is duidelijk gek en heeft een flink geval van grootheidswaanzin. Is de beer echt of niet, en als het beest echt is, dan heb ik zoveel vragen over hoe hij in vredesnaam zomaar mag rondlopen. Maartje was vervelend, maar ook eigenlijk het beste karakter. Die reis naar Frankrijk... eh... plus het hele wegloopgedoe door Frankrijk was ook gewoon vreemd. Ik had medelijden met de moeder. De situaties waren gewoon dom, ergerlijk, en bleh, en niet grappig. Vooral de grap van dat de beer stennis ging trappen werd enorm vervelend. Nee, ik ga dus niet de andere delen lezen ook al zou ik, volgens de hoofdpersoon me moeten schamen dat ik ze niet heb gelezen + heb ik volgens hem blijkbaar een tijd onder een steen geleefd, goh bedankt.
Timmy Failure: Sanitized for Your Protection is the fourth book in the Timmy Failure series. It continues the story of Timmy, a boy detective who runs a detective agency with his polar bear, Total. In this book, Timmy and his mom go on a road trip because she wants to get married. But Timmy just wants to solve mysteries and find his missing notebook. The book is very funny and full of silly adventures. Timmy thinks he is the best detective in the world, but he often causes trouble instead. I liked how he never gives up, even when things go wrong. The drawings make the story even more fun to read. My favorite part was when Timmy tried to stop the wedding because he thought something suspicious was going on. It showed how creative and determined he is, even if he is wrong sometimes.
"The book is interesting. There has been a case at Timmy's school the money was stolen from charity and Timmy thinks it is Molly Moskin. Timmy is on the run from Chicago with his suspect Molly Moskin.(Timmy calls her world famous criminal) Molly cried in front of a luxurious hotel and they felt sorry for her so they gave a room to play with but they got kicked out. Timmy's business partner total (a polar bear) so they bought a costume snuck in and played a little. The bear took a bath but wanted bonbons. So Timmy went to buy bonbons but got arrested and got grounded and found out molly didn't steal the money. They moved the decimal point." - Sunwoo K., 5A
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Timmy Failure finds himself on a road trip with his mom, Dave the Doorman, and Molly Moskins, and her family on the way to Chicago. This doesn't stop him from doing some detective work, when his best friend Rollo Tookus asks that he help find out who stole the money that was being raised for charity. Although miles away from the scene of the crime Timmy is convinced it's an open and shut case. Long distance doesn't stop Timmy, but only adds to the comedy of errors as together Timmy and Molly run wild in the city as underlying issues are brought to the surface as the case develops.
Timmy Failure is inclined to greatness, being a self-declared, amazing detective, with his sidekick Total (a very intransigent and only occasionally helpful polar bear). Timmy's classmates are bordering on the criminal, his teachers don't understand him, and his long-suffering mother very patiently tries to overcome the situation whenever he digs his heels in. The illustrations match the sardonic humour and ever-escalating episodes. Adults will also love the chapter titles, riffing off famous song titles. Timmy Failure! The truth is Sanitized for Your Protection.
This book was great and downright funny. The humor is good and so is the storyline. My favorite part is the part when Molly and Timmy goes on a hunt for Corrina Corrina because Timmy thinks she stole the treasury money from YIP YAP. Another one of my favorite parts is when they go to stay at a different hotel than their parents, and Molly spots a "bridal room", but Timmy refers it as a "bridle room". As a result, this book was very fun to read, and I would suggest everyone else does too.
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This amazing book was quite a humorous one to read. With its occasional jokes and fun characters, this was a pleasure to read. As a small company, YIP YAP (Yergi Ismavitch Plimkin, You Are Poor) was robbed and Timmy and Molly partnered up to help them get the money back.
This series would be most suitable for 7-12 year olds as the book is humorous, easy to understand and has a simple range of vocabulary, with the main plot easy to understand.