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(Ages 9 and older) -Karin Snelson From the Inside Flap:īook Description Hardcover. There is no question that young readers will want to read the continuing unlucky adventures of the Baudelaire children in The Reptile Room and The Wide Window. While it's true that the events that unfold in Lemony Snicket's novels are bleak, and things never turn out as you'd hope, these delightful, funny, linguistically playful books are reminiscent of Roald Dahl (remember James and the Giant Peach and his horrid spinster aunts), Charles Dickens (the orphaned Pip in Great Expectations without the mysterious benefactor), and Edward Gorey ( The Gashlycrumb Tinies). Still, they could never have anticipated how much trouble. But when they are ushered to the dilapidated doorstep of the miserable, thin, unshaven, shiny-eyed, money-grubbing Count Olaf, they know that they-and their family fortune-are in real trouble.

The children thought it was bad when the well-meaning Poes bought them grotesque-colored clothing that itched. 'It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed,' laments the personable (occasionally pedantic) narrator, who tells the story as if his readers are gathered around an armchair on pillows. Poe tells them that their parents perished in a fire that destroyed their whole house. Their misfortunes begin one gray day on Briny Beach when Mr. The Bad Beginning begins badly for the three Baudelaire children, and then gets worse.

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