Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: HarperFestival March 16, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060586567
ISBN-13: 978-0060586560
Product Dimensions:
7.4 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
Product Description
Dear Reader,
For many years, I have chronicled the lives of the Baudelaire orphans in a sequence of miserable and upsetting books entitled A Series of Unfortunate Events. Rather than reading such depressing stories, you may prefer this Blank Book, in which you can write down your own miserable and upsetting research.
You may use this volume to record many dreadful things:
the names of suspicious teachers you have encountered details of curious conversations you have overheard dreadful information you have found in other books The Blank Book also offers the following helpful features:
grimly decorated pages numerous unpleasant quotations from A Series of Unfortunate Events sinister stickers to help mark your most strange and shocking entries But I must warn you that once you begin using this book, you must guard it with your life -- or with the life of another allegedly trustworthy person.
With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket
About The Author
Lemony Snicket was born before you were, and is likely to die before you as well. His family has roots in a part of the country which is now underwater, and his childhood was spent in the relative splendor of the Snicket Villa which has since become a factory, a fortress and a pharmacy and is now, alas, someone else's villa.To the untrained eye, Mr. Snicket's hometown would not appear to be filled with secrets. Untrained eyes have been wrong before. The aftermath of the scandal was swift, brutal and inaccurately reported in the periodicals of the day. It is true, however, that Mr. Snicket was stripped of several awards by the reigning authorities, including Honorable Mention, the Grey Ribbon and First Runner Up. The High Council reached a convenient if questionable verdict and Mr. Snicket found himself in exile.
Though his formal training was chiefly in rhetorical analysis, he has spent the last several eras researching the travails of the Baudelaire orphans. This project, being published serially by HarperCollins, takes him to the scenes of numerous crimes, often during the off-season. Eternally pursued and insatiably inquisitive, a hermit and a nomad, Mr. Snicket wishes you nothing but the best.
