Lemony Snicket, Author . HarperCollins $11.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-000719-5
A certain maniacal glee went into the creation of this archly humorous volume. Beginning with the suggestion on the front flap of the dust jacket to disguise its "dangerous" contents ("Make use of this book's reversible jacket...
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Lemony Snicket, Author . HarperTrophy $6.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-056225-0
"A certain maniacal glee went into the creation of this archly humorous volume," said PW. "The contents lead readers on a merry goose chase. The 13 (naturally) chapters burst with red herrings, non sequiturs, mysterious letters, diary...
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Lemony Snicket, illus. by Seth. Little, Brown, $15.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-12308-2
Snicket, author of the wildly successful Series of Unfortunate Events stories, returns with the first in the projected four-volume All the Wrong Questions series, supplying "autobiographical" accounts of his unusual childhood. Nearly 13 when the...
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Lemony Snicket, Author Harperkidsentertainment $35.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-075773-1
Just in time for the major motion picture-with a tie-in photograph of Jim Carrey et al. on the box-the first three tales in their cloth editions kick off A Series of Unfortunate Events Box by Lemony Snicket. The trio of books, The Bad Beginning; The
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Lemony Snicket, Author, Tim Curry, Performed by, Gothic Archies, Other Harper Children's Audio $25.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-057947-0
Tim Curry, whose appropriately unctuous and sometimes slimy delivery are a hallmark of the audiobook versions of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events titles, is thankfully up to his old tricks. Curry returns on the 11th installment, The...
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Lemony Snicket, illus. by Jon Klassen. Little, Brown, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-18748-0
Snicket and Klassen are an inspired pairing in this suspenseful take on childhood fear. Laszlo, a solemn boy in blue pajamas, is scared of the dark, and it's easy to see why. He lives in a house with "a creaky roof, smooth, cold windows, and several
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Lemony Snicket, Author, Tim Curry, Featuring Harper Children's Audio $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-076579-8
Tim Curry, whose appropriately unctuous and sometimes slimy delivery are a hallmark of the audiobook versions of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events titles, is thankfully up to his old tricks. Curry returns on the 11th installment, The...
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Lemony Snicket, read by multiple narrators. Hachette Audio, , unabridged, three CDs, three hrs., $18 ISBN 978-1-4789-8123-7
This title contains 13 short stories from Lemony Snicket’s youthful time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea, a declining seaside town. While residing there with his indifferent mentor, Snicket solved mysteries such as a dog abduction, a case of stolen spoons,...
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Lemony Snicket, illus. by Lisa Brown. McSweeney’s McMullens, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-938073-78-6
Every town has one: that tchotchke shop/storefront psychic/drugstore that raises questions like “How does that place stay in business?” Snicket and Brown (The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming) examine one such emporium of enigma, the Swinster...
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Lemony Snicket, illus. by Rilla Alexander. Little, Brown, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-39282-2
A boy shies a tomato at a hive of bees, releasing a furious swarm. Snicket’s narrator (The Bad Mood and the Stick) addresses the bees: “You are so angry! What will you do?” Alexander (A Bear Sat on My Porch Today) shows the throng as hundreds of...
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Lemony Snicket, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $12.99 (286p) ISBN 978-0-06-441012-0
In the ninth title in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Carnivorous Carnival, the Baudelaire siblings are falsely accused of murder. On the run from Count Olaf (the real killer), the three disguise themselves in Madame Lulu's...
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Lemony Snicket, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $12.99 (337p) ISBN 978-0-06-441013-7
Stand back, Snicket fans, the latest Unfortunate Events are about to unfold in The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket, illus. by Brett Helquist. Violet and Klaus Baudelaire must climb the titular terrain as they search for their sister Sunny in the
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Lemony Snicket, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-051828-8
Stand back, Snicket fans, the latest Unfortunate Events are about to unfold in The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket, illus. by Brett Helquist. Violet and Klaus Baudelaire must climb the titular terrain as they search for their sister Sunny in the
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Lemony Snicket, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $12.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-440767-0
""If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book."" So cautions Snicket, the exceedingly well-mannered narrator of these two witty mock-gothic novels featuring the misadventures of 14-year-old...
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Lemony Snicket, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $12.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-440766-3
""If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book."" So cautions Snicket, the exceedingly well-mannered narrator of these two witty mock-gothic novels featuring the misadventures of 14-year-old...
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Lemony Snicket, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator HarperTrophy $12.99 (323p) ISBN 978-0-06-441014-4
Highly anticipated sequels hit the shelves this month. In the new installment in Lemony Snicket's bestselling series, A Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto, illus. by Brett Helquist, the Baudelaire siblings find themselves aboard the...
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Lemony Snicket, illus. by Lisa Brown. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62672-507-2
“Goldfish Ghost was born on the surface of the water in a bowl on the dresser in a boy’s room,” writes Snicket (The Dark) at the outset of this melancholic looking-for-friendship story, using the fish’s off-screen death as a new beginning. Brown (The
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Lemony Snicket, illus. by Matthew Forsythe. Little, Brown, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-39278-5
Curly wears overalls and two poofy pigtails. Her expression is stormy. A multicolored bad mood hovers above her like a cloud. Then she pokes her brother with a stick and cheers right up. Curly’s mother has the bad mood now; then it moves to a man...
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British actor Tim Curry, whose reputation for playing dastardly villain types precedes him, is terrific in this adaptation of the intentionally over-the-top, slightly scary tale of the Baudelaire orphans. As narrator/author Snicket, Curry relates...
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Lemony Snicket, Author, Lisa Brown, Illustrator , illus. by Lisa Brown. McSweeney’s $9.95 (43p) ISBN 978-193241687-9
Go ahead and cover this book in red, stamp it with gold foil and label it a Christmas story—Lemony Snicket fans won’t be fooled. The miraculous birth here is of a potato pancake, which, unlike its less loquacious literary cousin the...
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Lemony Snicket, Author, Nathaniel Stookey, Composer, Carson Ellis, Illustrator , music by Nathaniel Stookey, illus. by Carson Ellis HarperCollins $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-123627-3
Correction:
The title of Carolyn Meyer's novel is The True Adventures of Charley Darwin
(Reviews, Dec. 15).
The Composer Is Dead
Lemony Snicket
, music by Nathaniel Stookey, illus. by Carson Ellis HarperCollins
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Lemony Snicket, Author, Lemony Snicket, Read by Harper Children's Audio $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52542-3
Author Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) reads volumes three and four of his Series of Unfortunate Events saga. A snappy, techno tune by a group called the Gothic Archies serves as toe-tapping introduction to Handler's chipper performance of...
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Lemony Snicket, illus. by Maira Kalman, Harper, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-166465-6
Based on an unlucky number of key words and authored by someone who takes pleasure in unfortunate events, this volume conjures a sense of foreboding. "Word Number 1: Bird" introduces the central character, and the accompanying illustration pictures...
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Lemony Snicket. Liveright, $17.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-324-09062-5
Snicket (the A Series of Unfortunate Events series) returns with a delightfully quirky philosophical novel. After just finishing a meal of “Tea/ with honey/ a piece of toast/ with cheese,/ one sliced pear,/ and an egg perfectly prepared,”...
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