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Timmy Failure: Now Look What You’ve Done | February 12, 2014

by Stephan Pastis (Candlewick Press, February 2014)

Timmy Failure, Founder, President, and CEO of the greatest detective agency in the history of the world, returns following the breakout success of his first book last year. This time around, Timmy faces the biggest case of his career when his school announces a county-wide mystery contest with a $500 grand prize. This should be the opportunity to take Total Failure Industries straight to the top, but when Timmy misses the deadline, he realizes that a he has stumbled onto an international conspiracy against him that will take all of his cunning to unravel.

Timmy narrates and illustrates his story, confidently and charmingly divorced from reality. As the reader, you cannot help but get caught up in his schemes and end up rooting for the little guy, even knowing all along that his plans can only end in—well, failure. All of the quirky characters that made the first book special return; from Timmy’s lazy partner, a 3,000 pound polar bear, to a largely innocent and unsuspecting nemesis. There are even a few new faces to round out the cast, including an eccentric great-aunt whose presence seems to suggest that something very peculiar is running through the Failure gene pool. Through clever gags and surprising heart, Timmy Failure continues to stand head and scarf above the crowd.

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