USA Writer &
Illustrator Stephan Pastis Timmy Failure- the Book You’re Not Supposed to
Have Walker Books 2016 $19.99hb 274pp ISBN 978 1 4063 6976 2
Themes:
Detective work/ Funny stories/ Series
Although Timmy was
meant to be focusing on his school work (a very hard ask for him) he was forced
to work from his family garden shed and continue with his detective memoirs amongst
the compost and seedlings. Then the memoirs are stolen. The plot? Hard to say really
but I am convinced this is the sort of OTT humour that children of around 8 to
10 (and of course older adults like me) really enjoy. After four other Timmy Failure books, the first of which
was listed as one of the 100 Children’s Modern Classics by the Sunday Star Times,
it reads as though this may be the last in the series of five books but children
will happily go back to the beginning again…
Year 4 up/ Age 8 up
No comments:
Post a Comment