Timmy sees the classmate's younger brother with wrappers and writes in his notebook that the kid 'is not tidy.' He's the world's worst detective and as a parade of characters continue so does the humor and evidence of Timmy's problems at home and school.

The first case mentioned in the plot involves a kid in Timmy's class who hires him to find his missing Halloween candy. He has a detective agency with a 1500 pound polar bear as a partner who never speaks in the book.

Timmy is a cathartic release of emotions for people who are either weary of making mistakes (like me) or afraid of making mistakes. As the students say, 'she's so dumb she's funny!' Timmy is so patently dumb he's funny too. Jones who acts superior to others, calls people stupid, yells at adults, acts like a twit head, talks back, and is mean to most peers. In some ways Timmy's character reminds me of Junie B. Add to that list, 'Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made,' except stamp some great comic book pictures along with text and a protagonist like Elmer Fudd and you have a comedic unreliable narrator that makes me think of the Looney Tunes cartoon characters I grew up with in the 60's and 70's. Some unreliable narrators in children's literature are: 'The False Prince' by Jennifer Nielsen, 'Liar & Spy' by Rebecca Stead, and 'Monster' by Walter Dean Myers. Take a look at Holden Caulfield in 'Catcher and the Rye,' another top-notch unreliable narrator spewing contradictory statements and hyperboles in most of his dialogue. Huckleberry Finn is an 'unreliable narrator' who even says outright that sometimes he tells the truth, sometimes he lies, and sometimes he stretches the truth. In English classes, teachers often have lessons where students examine the reliability of a character's voice. Pastis lives with his family in Northern California. Pearls Before Swine was nominated in 2003, 20 as 'Best Newspaper Comic Strip' by the National Cartoonists Society and won the award in 20. Pearls Before Swine debuted in newspapers in January, 2002, and Pastis left his law practice in August of that year. In December, 1999, he signed a contract with United.

Then, in 1997, he began drawing Pearls Before Swine, which he submitted to the syndicates in mid-1999. While an attorney, he began submitting various comic strip concepts to all of the syndicates, and, like virtually all beginning cartoonists, got his fair share of rejection slips. He practiced law in the San Francisco Bay area from 1993 to 2002. Although he had always wanted to be a syndicated cartoonist, Pastis realized that the odds of syndication were slim, so he entered UCLA Law School in 1990 and became an attorney instead. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 with a degree in political science. Stephan Pastis was born in 1968 and raised in San Marino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

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