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Mistakes were made / Stephan Pastis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pastis, Stephan. Timmy Failure ; 1.Publication details: London : Walker Books, 2013.Description: 294 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781406339802
  • 9781406339819 (hbk.)
  • 1406339814 (hbk.)
  • 9781406347876
Other title:
  • Timmy Failure : mistakes were made
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.6 23
Summary: Meet Timmy Failure, founder of the best detective agency in town - Total Failure, Inc. With the help of his polar bear, Total, the clueless, comically self-confident Timmy 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Childrens Fiction Davis (Central) Library Children's Fiction Children's Fiction PAS 2 Available T00554508
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Meet "detective" Timmy Failure, star of the kids comedy of the year. Created by New York Times best-selling cartoonist Stephan Pastis.Take 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 mum'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-brain 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.

Meet Timmy Failure, founder of the best detective agency in town - Total Failure, Inc. With the help of his polar bear, Total, the clueless, comically self-confident Timmy 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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School Library Journal Review

Gr 4-7-Timmy Failure is the mastermind and CEO behind Total Failure Inc., a detective agency he runs out of his mother's closet with Total, his imaginary polar bear associate and business partner. Timmy becomes involved in several cases, including missing candy, missing shoes, and a toilet-papered house,. Then, to his horror, his Failuremobile, otherwise known as his mother's Segway, goes missing. Who is behind its disappearance? Timmy is sure it's the rival detective agency run by his classmate, the evil Corrina Corrina. He also finds himself dealing with his mother's new boyfriend, a new apartment, and a new teacher. With so many cases and so much change, can Timmy come out on top? Pastis's illustrated comic novel seems aimed at the Wimpy Kid readership judging by the cartoon drawings and the sarcastic male protagonist. Yet many of Timmy's escapades may go over this target audience's heads since the vocabulary is sophisticated. Timmy's apparent lack of common sense will also either delight students or turn them off completely. Jared Goldsmith does a fabulous job voicing all the characters, especially Timmy. Be sure to pair the audio with the print version.-Elizabeth Elsbree, Krug Elementary School, Aurora, IL (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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