Waterstones The Bad Beginning
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Price: £7.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Dear reader, There is nothing to be found in Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read. But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans, then proceed with caution. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In The Bad Beginning, the siblings encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune and cold porridge for breakfast. In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and irreverent, hilarious and deftly crafted. Despite their wretched contents, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' has sold 60 million copies worldwide and been made into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey. And now things are poised to get much worse, thanks to the new Netflix series starring Neil Patrick Harris. You have been warned. Are you unlucky enough to own all 13 adventures? .
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781405266062
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781405266062
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Author: 12views
Rating: 5
Review: I read this with my Year 6 class (as I have done for a number of years) and yet again they were hooked. Wonderful storytelling, twisted characterisation and lots of brilliant vocabulary to explore. An educator's dream!
Author: Annamarie
Rating: 3
Review: In the first story in the series we meet the Baudelaire children Violet the eldest, Clause the middle child and Sunny the youngest. While they are enjoying a nice day at the beach Mr Poe a banker arrives and informs the children that there has been a fire at their family home which has killed their parents and they are now going into foster care. The Baudelaire’s go to live with Mr Poe and his family for a few days while he sorts out for them to go and live with their ‘uncle’ Count Olaf. Count Olaf turns out to be a horrible man who makes the children do a very many chores and the only relief that they get is when they visit his neighbour Justice Straus. Count Olaf only wants the children for their inheritance and he conjures up a plan to marry Violet to get at the money but the children manage to thwart him and he gets arrested and the children are taken back to the Poe’s but that is not the end of the story. I’m enjoying this series and cheering the children each time they are able to put a slight hitch in Count Olaf’s plans.
