- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.; First Edition edition (29 Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 031232703X
- ISBN-13: 978-0312327033
- Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 13.4 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 640,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A Series of Unfortunate Events is one of the most popular children's series in the world and will be a major motion picture starring Jim Carrey, Mery! Streep and Jude Law coming this Christmas season. Now comes the ultimate companion guide to these fun and wildly successful novels. Digging beneath the surface, Lois Gresh uses science, history and little-known facts to dig deep into the world of A Series of Unfortunate Events and provides young readers everywhere with how-to-hints and tips, quizzes, cool anecdotes, fun facts and information in everything Lemony. Including: Facts about handwriting analysis and forgery; Killer leeches, crabs, fungi and peppermint - all you need to know; The truth about hypnosis - and how to use it! Real child inventors and their amazing inventions; How to build a telephone, a hot air balloon and an automatic harmonica; Are you as smart as Violet & Clause - the ultimate quiz; And much more!
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It was near Desolate Lake in the fall of 1990 that Carolyn Catastrophe planted a shrub that changed the world forever. Read the first page
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I really didn't like this book at all, because the author tries to imitate Lemony Snicket too much and doen't succeed which makes it hard to read. I was really looking forward to reading this book and was very disappointed when I read it.
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i ordered the book for xmas and my son was very happy with it it came in time will usethe service again as he loves reading
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Ever heard of an automatic harmonica? Need to learn to pick a lock? Did you know there are 650 species of leeches? Fans of the Lemony Snicket series A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS will want to keep this unauthorized companion handy, and newcomers will find Gresh's "Ultimate Book Report about Lemony Snicket" (p. 192) a helpful resource when diving into the series for the first time.
Gresh's main goal appears to be to easily flow learning opportunities into The Truth without interrupting the reader's enjoyment. She accomplishes this by combining events from the series with academic enlightenment. For example, in Chapter Five, she references Book the Second, THE REPTILE ROOM, within a discussion of herpetology, frog facts, and a text-box entitled, "The Most Deadly Snakes in the World" (pp. 57-60). In another instance, Gresh references Count Olaf from the first book, THE BAD BEGINNING. She includes Count Olaf's attempt to trick fourteen-year-old Violet into marrying him without the young girl's knowledge in Chapter Eight, among details of legal marrying ages in not only states throughout the U.S., but also other countries, as well as text-boxes entitled "Marital Law in Ancient Rome" and "Marital Law in Ancient Greece" (pp. 105-8).
Overall, although unauthorized, the facts, insights, and quizzes offered by Gresh make the world of Lemony Snicket seem a bit less "unfortunate."
Reviewed by: Mechele R. Dillard
Gresh's main goal appears to be to easily flow learning opportunities into The Truth without interrupting the reader's enjoyment. She accomplishes this by combining events from the series with academic enlightenment. For example, in Chapter Five, she references Book the Second, THE REPTILE ROOM, within a discussion of herpetology, frog facts, and a text-box entitled, "The Most Deadly Snakes in the World" (pp. 57-60). In another instance, Gresh references Count Olaf from the first book, THE BAD BEGINNING. She includes Count Olaf's attempt to trick fourteen-year-old Violet into marrying him without the young girl's knowledge in Chapter Eight, among details of legal marrying ages in not only states throughout the U.S., but also other countries, as well as text-boxes entitled "Marital Law in Ancient Rome" and "Marital Law in Ancient Greece" (pp. 105-8).
Overall, although unauthorized, the facts, insights, and quizzes offered by Gresh make the world of Lemony Snicket seem a bit less "unfortunate."
Reviewed by: Mechele R. Dillard
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