Timmy Failure: The Movie

Stephan Pastis's 'Timmy Failure: The Movie' is a highly engaging graphic novel for middle-grade readers, featuring the endearingly bumbling detective Timmy Failure and his unusual business partner, a polar bear named Total. This book, which inspired a Disney+ film, delivers a blend of laugh-out-loud humor, a clever mystery, and moments of unexpected heart. It's perfect for children aged 10-14 who enjoy quirky characters, visual storytelling, and stories about self-confidence, friendship, and perseverance despite comedic setbacks. The graphic novel format makes it particularly appealing to reluctant readers.

Now an original film on Disney+ “An endearingly pathetic antihero with delusions of greatness. . . . Seldom has failure been so likable — or so funny.” — The Wall Street Journal Take Timmy Failure—the clueless, comically self-confident CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the nation. Add his impressively lazy business partner, a very large polar bear named Total, and what you have is Total Failure, Inc. From the offbeat creator of Pearls Before Swine comes an endearingly bumbling hero in a hilarious caper accompanied by a whodunit twist. With perfectly paced visual humor, Stephan Pastis gets readers snorting with laughter, then slyly carries the joke a beat further—or sweetens it with an unexpected poignant moment—making this a comics-inspired and New York Times best-selling story that truly stands apart from the pack.