The editor was Susan Rich, a woman we will now refer to as “Resident Genius” because I doubt that many editors would have seen the possibilities in Handler’s wordplay. The son of a man who escaped the Holocaust, Handler’s career as a children’s author began when his editor suggested (after reading an adult manuscript) that he write for kids. In Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy (edited by Leonard Marcus) an interview was conducted with Daniel Handler, the face behind the Snicket. Violet’s inventive genius, Klaus’s forte for research, and Sunny’s gift for biting the bad guys at opportune moments save the day.” When Olaf holds Sunny hostage to force Violet to marry him, it takes all of the siblings’ resourcefulness to outwit him. Surrounded by dim-witted though well-meaning adults, the Baudelaires find themselves in the care of their evil relative, Count Olaf, a disreputable actor whose main concern is getting his hands on the children’s fortune. In Bad Beginning, their parents and possessions perish in a fire, and the orphans must use their talents to survive as their lives move from one disastrous event to another. Library Journal described the plot in this manner: “This series chronicles the unfortunate lives of the Baudelaire children: Violet, 14 Klaus, 12 and the infant, Sunny. Later, when he would command entire buildings like the Union Square Barnes & Noble, I missed the early days of Snicketmania. He was wonderful, and the crowd was reasonable if not excessive. I read the first few Snicket books in Powell’s on a lark and loved them, so after the publication of #4 I went and saw Mr. When I lived in Portland, Oregon after college I started reading children’s books out of the blue (yet never dreamed I’d be a children’s librarian, odd as that may sound).
My encounters with the book precede my library degree. Previously #71 it now leaps up to the 40s. Unlike other series no one had any desire to nominate a Snicket title other than this, the first. I’m a Snicket girl, loving the play with wit and words in this Series of Unfortunate Events. #48 The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (1999)Īlso brought me a huge list of new readers – boys and girls and teachers loved to read them out loud to the class.
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