This Timmy Failure Series 7 Books Set includes the following 1. Mistakes Were Made 9780763669270 2. Now Look What You've Done 9780763680145 3. We Meet Again 9781406386721 4. Sanitized for Your Protection 9781536208764 5. The Book You're Not Supposed to Have 9781536209082 6. The Cat Stole My Pants 9781406387230 7. It’s the End When I Say It’s the End 9781536209105
Stephan Pastis was born in 1968 and raised in San Marino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 with a degree in political science. 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 practiced law in the San Francisco Bay area from 1993 to 2002. 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. Then, in 1997, he began drawing Pearls Before Swine, which he submitted to the syndicates in mid-1999. In December, 1999, he signed a contract with United. Pearls Before Swine debuted in newspapers in January, 2002, and Pastis left his law practice in August of that year. Pearls Before Swine was nominated in 2003, 2004 and 2007 as "Best Newspaper Comic Strip" by the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) and won the award in 2004 and 2007. Pastis lives with his family in Northern California.
I can't overstate what a masterpiece this series is, and I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it. I read these books with my 6 and 10 year old sons over the course of a few weeks because we were all so riveted.
It's pretty rare that I get more excited than my kids to read their bedtime stories, but this series grabbed my heartstrings in a major way.
We laughed (like belly laughed out loud, rereading passages over and over with tears running down our cheeks) and we sobbed at the end to say goodbye to such a dear friend.
The stories were crafted in a very masterful way as to meet kids where they are as adventurous, mischievous beings, but also in a way that adults can see the larger story arc and what it means to forgive people for their infinite "failures."