A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket and Brett Helquist
I have a son. He’s 11, and he’s the one who wanted to read A Series of Unfortunate Events. The book is about the misadventures of a family, the Baudelaire family and these children are tragically orphaned in the first book, and end up being sent to live with an uncle who’s only interested in their fortune.
I loved the humor – dark humor. Lots of wordplay. He has certain things that he does that he does repeatedly, like he’ll use a phrase, like dastardly, and then he’ll say, which – in parentheses, which in this case means, you know, evil to the core or something – something funnier than that. But he gives these definitions of words that acknowledges that a kid might not necessarily know what they mean, but that gives them a very funny definition in context.
It’s probably geared towards a slightly younger crowd, but I can see how, you know, even a little bit older kids could get into it.
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