Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

I loved pre-reading this book and then hearing my 9yo read it and also laugh and run back and tell me stories about what he just read. These are the joys of reading. Great book!

Okay, so let me begin by mentioning my age and my interest in reading this book. I'm 24 and about a year off from being the greatest elementary teacher the world has ever seen! This past year or so I've been reading books to stock my classroom library with for my students to read. Also, to note, I've just become an avid reader and the only books of interest at the moment are the ones I will one day have available for my students. Okay, now for the review.I absolutely refuse to sugarcoat this review but this book was three parts incredible and twelve parts amazing. The characters were enjoyable, the writing was clever and comical, and the storyline was stellar. This was a book that anyone with a good sense of humor will enjoy at any age. One of the more cohesive aspects, to me, was the dialogue. I found it overwhelmingly believable, even if Timmy sometimes spoke to an intellectual level that would normally seem a little out of reach for his age--it was his character that made it believable and subsequently hilarious.Even though the main rivalry in the book seems a bit one-sided, Timmy more than makes up for it by his most astute observations. He also makes up for the antics of his polar bear partner who seems to get in the way more often than he helps. Timmy Failure is quickly on his path to greatness, though he would probably argue he's already most of the way there.In all honesty, this book made me laugh out loud on a consistent basis. I simply could not put it down. And it's because of all these reasons that Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made is the most exciting series I've ever cracked into and even though I do not know when book No. 2 will be written/made available to the general public, it will be all I desire until I can have it. As a future teacher, and hopefully a future parent, this book is not only great for entertaining children of all ages, it's also loaded with tremendous potential for engaging mini-lessons that students will enjoy doing!

I love Pearls before Swine. I love the sarcasm in it and the satire. Now Mr. Pastis has moved on to childrens literature, so just how good is it? Personally, I think it is still geared more to adults than children. Much of the satire in this book will probably be missed by most kids but is very funny to the adult reading it to them. Timmy is truly a failure....we think. In the end, is he? Well, I'll let you decide.He's obviously a little boy who likes living in his own world and it creates some very funny situations. All I'm going to say is we all hate the Bowling Turkey. Period.If you like Pearls, you will like this book. I'm an adult (according to age), but love simple humor and this book is full of it. You will love it if you are a Pastis fan. Four stars only because I'm not sure it is really a kids book. Nothing harmful, I just think the humor is a bit mature....nothing "bad"....just maybe over lots of kids heads? I can't say for sure because it has been a heck of a long time since I was a kid.Buy it, laugh at it (you will) and let your kid read it or read it with them, and see if they get it.Well worth the $15 or whatever to make Mr. Pastis even richer than he is.

It's no secret times are tough out here. At home together for days and weeks and months on end, we'd all gotten grouchy, sad, mad, lonely, and depressed. Then, along came Timmy. I have never heard my kids (9 and 6) laugh so long and so hard as they did when we read Timmy Failure's seven novels together. I can't recommend them enough. Silly? Yes. Delusional? Definitely. Absurd? Absolutely. Timmy is possibly the world's most unreliable narrator, but you'll love seeing the world from his point of view and you'll love him, too.

My daughter picked up this book from her gifted classroom teacher. She brought it home and her younger brother and she loved it so much that I bought it for their kindle. They both couldn't put it down and now I get to hear almost daily about when the next Timmy Failure will be coming out. To give you an idea of what they like to read, my daughter is 9 and my son is 7 but they are both advanced readers. When she was younger she loved Diary of a Wimpy Kid (and likely still does). My son on the other hand hates it. He is reading Harry Potter and likes it but it seems to be a "filler" for him until the next Timmy Failure comes out. He also recently read Hairy Not Scary Werewolf and again really enjoyed it but doesn't hold a candle to his love of Timmy Failure. I could hear them giggling as they read it. It has many short chapters and they really enjoyed the rudimentary illustrations. They often will reminisce about parts of the book out of the blue. I hope the next one is as good as this one!

The artist and mind behind Pearls Before Swine does to kidslit what he does to the comic strip. It is wonderfully absurd and if the reader is in on the joke, a good experience for the reading parent and child to have together.

A new book shouldn't arrive with back cover and pages bent in the opposite direction

I have been a Pearls Before Swine fan since waaay back, so let me tell you that when I found out that he was putting out a children's book I lost it! But then I found it and I bought it. And let me tell you I read this in a single sitting like it was the most natural thing in the world.This is a hilarious tour de force from one of Northern California's top 10-15 syndicated cartoonists. The characters are sympathetic and funny, the story moves along at a great pace and the ending, well ... no spoliers, right? But it was GREAT! The prose crackles with life! Which was a funny coincidence because I was eating a Hershey's Krackel at the time. Remember those? They came in the Hershey's Fun Size Pack but you never really saw them in stores being sold by themselves. Why was that?Anyway, I just want to congratulate Stephan for easily overcoming his poor choices in facial hair and overuse of hair product to make something that will stand the test of time and should win multiple "Best of 2013" awards.

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Now this one here is a VERY FUNNY book!! It's got LOL moments literally on every page. I am reading it together with my (7y.o.) son not because he is not able to read on his own, but because I want to enjoy the experience as well! It is true that the book is packed with some vigorous vocabulary novelties but that doesn't seem to stop us from enjoying it. The context seems to be enough to explain the new words and the new words are introduced by Timmy Failure himself, not by an adult narrator, which makes them part of the character rather than just unknown words. The chapters are short and meaty, the writer is really exploring his creative freedom. I am sure that certain images will stay with me for a long time.

I loved this book it was so funny and i must have cried with laughter 2 tomes would definitely recomemd it har very funny moments at every page!:" " /6579+6782=?-1

When I downloaded this for free from Amazon I expected a Graphic Novel. What I got was a story with some illustrations to go alongside it. That being said it was still a decent book, definitely aimed at the kids. Timmy and his Polar Bear run a detective agency which his mum puts kosh too.

My 8yr old daughter loved this book and devoured it in one day. She particularly loved the Failuremobile and subsequent Totalmobile. Within seconds of finishing the book she asked if I would buy her the next two in the series, which are now on their way to us.