The Book You're Not Supposed to Have (Timmy Failure, #5)

author: Stephan Pastis
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2017/08/17
date added: 2017/08/17
shelves: children-s
review:
'The Book You're Not Supposed to Have (Timmy Failure #5)' by Stephan Pastis is my first read in this series. It is very odd and very funny.

Timmy Failure has been banished from being a detective until the end of the school year. He is also upset because his mother is marrying the doorman, and they expect Timmy to be in the wedding. Add in his strange cousins Merry and Larry, a missing best friend, and a school strike that threatens to extend school to all year.

Timmy is a weird little kid, and really funny in all of that weirdness. He has a polar bear for an assistant, and his perception and detective skills are a bit lacking. Still it was funny to see him setting up his detective office in a garden shed at a big box hardware store and ripping up a Mickey Molar stuffed animal from his orthodontist.

Stephan Pastis is the man behind the Pearls Before Swine comic strip that I love, and his illustrations are throughout the book. It's a fun read for younger readers. I had a lot of fun gettng to know Timmy Failure.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Candlewick Press and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.


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