Timmy Failure (book series)

Timmy Failure is a children's book series authored and illustrated by cartoonist Stephan Pastis, creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. The series chronicles the life of a child detective, the eponymous Timmy Failure, who lives with his mother and is often accompanied by his pet polar bear, Total. The boy and the bear make up the detective agency "Total Failure Inc". The series mainly covers the misadventures of Failure, who is constantly getting into trouble with the school and with his mother. Side characters include Failure's best friend Rollo and his "nemesis", Corrina Corrina.

Pastis has described Timmy as "clueless and arrogant, though bearable given his family situation." When discussing the impact of his daily comic strip on his writing style in the book series, Pastis noted that the "forced economy" of a short comic strip caused him to realize the value of words, which helped him in crafting the stories in the series.

The books series inspired a movie based largely on the first book in the series, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made.

Books of the Series

There are eight books in the Timmy Failure series:

1. Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2013)
2. Timmy Failure: Now Look What You've Done (2014)
3. Timmy Failure: We Meet Again (2014)
4. Timmy Failure: Sanitized for Your Protection (2015)
5. Timmy Failure: The Book You're Not Supposed to Have (2016)
6. Timmy Failure: That Cat Stole My Pants (2017)
7. Timmy Failure: It's the End When I Say It's the End (2018)
8. Timmy Failure: Zero to Hero (2020)