Toppsta - Childrens Books – Reviews

Timmy Failure is a brilliantly bad eleven-year-old detective and CEO of his own detective agency “Total Failure, Inc”. Assisted by his polar bear sidekick, Total, Timmy sets out to solve mysteries, fight evil, make money to pay his mum’s bills and most importantly defeat his arch-enemy Corrina Corrina (the-girl-who-shall-not-be-named) who has a rival agency and top marks at school to boot. Timmy and Total’s antics are unfailingly hilarious and their clueless yet strangely over-confident attempts to fight crime will have you crying with laughter.

Written and illustrated by comic genius Stephan Pastis, the cartoon illustrations bring the stories to life. Having made his name with the acclaimed comic strip Pearls Before Swine, which appears in more than 600 newspapers worldwide, Pastis turned his hand to children’s fiction with the first Timmy Failure book Mistakes Were Made in 2013. It was an instant bestseller in the US and is soon to be made into a Disney film. 

There are now seven books in the series which is a must for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Barry Loser or Tom Gates, and all readers aged 8 and upwards who love silly stories. The comic adventures of Timmy and Total are riotous but also surprisingly poignant and may bring a tear to your eye. 

Start with Book 1 to get Timmy’s back story and his “historical record of my life as a detective”, rigorously fact-checked by Timmy himself and prepare for a side-splitting adventure.

All the Timmy Failure books in order:-

Book 1: Mistakes Were Made (2013)
Book 2: Now Look What You’ve Done (2014)
Book 3: We Meet Again (2014)
Book 4: Sanitized For Your Protection (2015)
Book 5: The Book You’re Not Supposed to Have (2016)
Book 6: The Cat Stole My Pants (2017)
Book 7: It’s the End When I Say It’s the End (2018)