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Narrated by:
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Jared Goldsmith
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Landon Woodson
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By:
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Stephan Pastis
About this listen
The prequel to the New York Times best-selling series that's soon to be a movie on Disney+!
"Timmy Failure is a winner!" (Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
Timmy Failure is not just any detective - he is the greatest detective in his town, perhaps the nation. He is so famous that there have been seven books written about his life. Plus a movie. And so he has agreed to provide the world with his extraordinary origin story, as dictated to his biographer and best friend, Charles "Rollo" Tookus.
New York Times best-selling author Stephan Pastis is back with the hilariously heartwarming tale of how it all started for our favorite clueless detective - including how he got that red scarf!
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- MT Murphy
- 12-31-24
Backstory at Last!!!
I love the series, and this is so ridiculous. That boy is not the brightest star in the galaxy! ''Distinguishment?'' Hilarious! I can't wait to see if anything else pops up with that boy!
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- Jason B.
- 08-13-23
Sooooo funny
Timmy is ridiculous in a great way also he has a polar bear named total
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- Blue Ocean LLC
- 03-27-24
super good definitely a five star worthy book
Very good in the since that it is very good and by that i mean very good
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-06-24
Timmy
I like how Timmy thinks Starbucks is a CD bar meets Flow! Timmy is so funny
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- Heather Lanigan
- 09-22-22
Great narration
The narration was great! It’s a voice I was expecting of Timmy Failure after reading through the physical book first with my son. It’s not as good for a bedtime title as I’d planned, but it’s entertaining! Also, this is a great interpretation of all of the visual content throughout the book!
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- NYC Websurfer
- 07-05-23
Great
The end when? Great book it’s very good and Rolo is hilarious.Read it now! Thanks !
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- E&A
- 12-24-23
Noice
Funny funny 😄 I love this book and how it is named o to hero and how Timmy failure is super dumb but In a funny way
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- terry olson
- 12-02-20
SOOOOOO FUN.
S O O O O O. O O GOOD FUNGOOD, 1 2 3 4 5
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- Anna
- 09-28-23
So Funny
I listened to this and I have no complaints it is SUCH a good book.
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- marisa bratcher
- 12-29-24
Omg! So awesome I laugh when I listen to it!
I need to buy this book! It’s so good I will like always listen to it
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