Stephan Pastis is a lawyer-turned-cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine, and the author of the New York Times best selling Timmy Failure chapter book series for middle school kids.
Timmy Failure follows the exploits of the young “defective” detective and his polar bear friend, Total, as they solve crimes in their neighborhood. “I have an unreliable narrator,” Pastis says of the title character. “I have to remind myself every chapter: He gets everything wrong.”
