I think to write specifically for kids risks writing down to kids. I just left out some of the more adult elements of Pearls and then wrote as I normally write. Stephan Pastis: Surprisingly, it wasn’t that different. How did you approach writing humor - and prose - for children differently? Pastis recently spoke to Bookselling This Week about what it was like to write humor and prose for kids as well as how he crafts his comedic commentary.īTW : You are a seasoned cartoonist, though your previously published books and comics are for a slightly older audience than the readers of Timmy Failure. Pastis adds to this cast of characters a few of Timmy’s quirky classmates, an archenemy, and a cat named Señor Burrito, and the resulting romp has been a big hit with independent booksellers and their customers. Timmy, the detective in question, blunders his way through crime after crime with his business partner, a very unhelpful polar bear named Total. In this middle grade novel, Pastis, a lawyer-turned-cartoonist, took a departure from his usual comic strip style and penned more than 200 pages of prose to accompany drawings that are interspersed throughout the novel. The number one choice of booksellers for this spring’s Kids’ Indie Next List is Stephan Pastis’ Timmy Failure, a chronicle of one the world’s most unfortunate - and funniest - kid detectives.
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