- Hardcover: 72 pages
- Publisher: Egmont Books Ltd (4 Sep 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1405227486
- ISBN-13: 978-1405227483
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 20 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Who is Beatrice, the woman to whom Mr. Snicket dedicates every book? There is no question more often asked by fans of Lemony Snicket. Now this captivating collection of letters between Lemony Snicket and Beatrice provides answers to that question, as well as other, more upsetting ones, such as "What was Count Olaf like as a boy?" and "What are the ingredients in a really good root beer float?" Readers looking for clues to The Series of Unfortunate Events, which culminates this season with the publication of Book the Thirteenth, should proceed with great caution: the more they examine "The Beatrice Letters", the more they will decode.
About the Author
Mr Snicket has spent the last several eras researching the travails of the Baudelaire orphans. During his spare time, he gathers evidence and is considered something of an expert by leading authorities. Lemony Snicket published his first book in 1999 and has not had a good night's sleep since. To his horror and dismay, he has no wife or children, only enemies, associates, and the occasional loyal manservant. Lemony Snicket's extended family, if they were alive, would describe him as a distinguished scholar, an amateur connoisseur, and an outright gentleman.
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45 of 47 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If there's anyone on your gift list unlucky enough to own the entire series of unfortunate events, you may wish to inflict further adversity upon them by purchasing this additional volume for their collection. Not so much a book as a mystery contained between hard covers, this most attractively presented publication contains two folders, one with a large two-sided poster filled with clues, and a notebook containing correspondence exchanged between a guy named Lemony Snicket and what seems to be two people named Beatrice Baudelaire, one of whom claims to be a fourth Baudelaire sibling. The letters begin before The Bad Beginning and end sometime after The End.
It soon becomes evident that the notebook contains many clues, and from the cover we learn that these clues are "suspiciously linked to Book the Thirteenth". The most obvious puzzle is the anagram using the punch out letters, but there's no way in heck that anybody's going to ruin the notebook by actually doing that. There are several solutions to the anagram, two of which contain names, the simplest one seeming to tie in with the poster illustration, and the other one connected through the correspondence. Even the cover has an illustrated surprise which could also be a clue.
Conspiracy buffs will have a field day with this one, which is a lot trickier that it looks. For instance the occupation "baticeer" (someone who trains bats) won't be found in the dictionary, and the poem "My Silence Knot" is also a puzzle. It's highly unlikely that I'll be any closer to revealing any secrets by the time "The End" comes out next month, so I guess I'll just have to wait and see. In the interim, this one gets full marks for originality and presentation.
Amanda Richards
It soon becomes evident that the notebook contains many clues, and from the cover we learn that these clues are "suspiciously linked to Book the Thirteenth". The most obvious puzzle is the anagram using the punch out letters, but there's no way in heck that anybody's going to ruin the notebook by actually doing that. There are several solutions to the anagram, two of which contain names, the simplest one seeming to tie in with the poster illustration, and the other one connected through the correspondence. Even the cover has an illustrated surprise which could also be a clue.
Conspiracy buffs will have a field day with this one, which is a lot trickier that it looks. For instance the occupation "baticeer" (someone who trains bats) won't be found in the dictionary, and the poem "My Silence Knot" is also a puzzle. It's highly unlikely that I'll be any closer to revealing any secrets by the time "The End" comes out next month, so I guess I'll just have to wait and see. In the interim, this one gets full marks for originality and presentation.
Amanda Richards
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you like all the Lemony books then this is a great book to read. It is mysterious, but interesting and doesnt give much away. But if however youve already read the last in a series of unfortunate events, then some mystery and excitement is removed because you alredy know who beatrice is.
TIP: if anyone really wants to know who beatrice is, just look at the last word in the last chapter of the last book of the series and you'll find out. you kinda need to read the whole chapter as well though. also you really need to read all the books in order cos if you dont the endings are revealed before youve read every book. it especially starts mattereing around book 6 - the ersatz elevator
all in all, very mysterious but a great, fairly quick read
TIP: if anyone really wants to know who beatrice is, just look at the last word in the last chapter of the last book of the series and you'll find out. you kinda need to read the whole chapter as well though. also you really need to read all the books in order cos if you dont the endings are revealed before youve read every book. it especially starts mattereing around book 6 - the ersatz elevator
all in all, very mysterious but a great, fairly quick read
Format:Hardcover
From the very first clue all the way to untangling the anagrams in the sonnet `My Silence Knot' (also an anagram), the `letters' are tantalising and humourous - and brilliantly realised - which here means a joy to look at. But what is also remarkable is the beauty in the prose the real author has penned (Daniel Handler that is - not `Lemony Snicket' who is the fictitious `biographer' of the `Series of unfortunate events' chronicles) - very funny and insightful - as always - but also - very very moving.
Even if you are not a fan of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny - the Baudelaire orphans who lost their parents in a fire, as chronicled by the character `Lemony Snicket' in the thirteen-part ` A series of unfortunate events'; and even if you haven't seen the DVD and marvelled at its contents, or read any of the books, you will draw lots from this.
Even if you are not a fan of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny - the Baudelaire orphans who lost their parents in a fire, as chronicled by the character `Lemony Snicket' in the thirteen-part ` A series of unfortunate events'; and even if you haven't seen the DVD and marvelled at its contents, or read any of the books, you will draw lots from this.
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If you've been following Lemony Snicket's A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, then you've undoubtedly read of Beatrice Baudelaire. Who she is, exactly, is a mystery. Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2006 by TeensReadToo
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It is great and is a must-get for leamony snicket fans, it reveals some well... a very big part of the story (i think) of the 13th book! Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2006 by F. Collingwood
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