The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Lemony Snicket
Subjects
- Action Adventures - chills, thrills and plenty of spills
- Action Adventures - chills, thrills and plenty of spills
- Spinetinglers - shivers up the spine time
- Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
- Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
Average rating
Dear reader,
There is nothing to be found in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read. But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans, then proceed with caution… Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In The Wide Window the siblings encounter a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leaches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain and a doll named Pretty Penny. In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and irreverent, hilarious and deftly crafted. Despite their wretched contents, A Series of Unfortunate Events has sold 60 million copies worldwide and been made into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey. And in the future things are poised to get much worse, thanks to the forthcoming Netflix series directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. You have been warned. Are you unlucky enough to own all 13 adventures? The Bad Beginning The Reptile Room The Wide Window The Miserable Mill The Austere Academy The Ersatz Elevator The Vile Village The Hostile Hospital The Carnivorous Carnival The Slippery Slope The Grim Grotto The Penultimate Peril The End And what about All The Wrong Questions? In this four-book series a 13-year-old Lemony chronicles his dangerous and puzzling apprenticeship in a mysterious organisation that nobody knows anything about: ‘Who Could That Be at This Hour?’ ‘When Did you Last See Her?’ ‘Shouldn’t You Be in School?’ ‘Why is This Night Different from All Other Nights?’ Lemony Snicket was born before you were and is likely to die before you as well. He was born in a small town where the inhabitants were suspicious and prone to riot. He grew up near the sea and currently lives beneath it. Until recently, he was living somewhere else. Brett Helquist was born in Ganado, Arizona, grew up in Orem, Utah, and now lives in New York City. He earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Brigham Young University and has been illustrating ever since. His art has appeared in many publications, including Cricket magazine and The New York Times.Reviews
In my opinion, this book was extraordinary. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in adventure, danger and/or children.
Baron Geronimo Pawprint 20.09.2024
Star Reviewer
I thought this book was very good and I enjoyed the way Lemony Snickett narrated the story throughout! I thought it was hilarious that Aunt Josephine was terrified of pretty much everything and was so obsessed with grammar that she was always correcting everyone, no mater the circumstances! My favourite characters were the Baudelaires: Violet because she was always inventing things, Klaus, because he liked to read lots and lots of books and Sunny, because she was very funny in the way she spoke and the fact that she loved to bite things! I would definitley recommend this book for anyone who enjoys books that are both funny and mysterious!
Lady Pixie Costa-Rica 26.08.2022
This book was very entertaining and my favourite character was Sunny because she stole the key to steel a boat to rescue someone.
Empress Sapphire Fascination 13.08.2022
I like this book because it’s like the other books in the Series but different. I like violet best. It was like they were protecting there Guardian not the other way round. Yes!
Baroness Peaches Windchime 02.09.2021
great book.
Princess Kiki Banana 30.07.2021
Gud
Anonymous 09.12.2020
I really liked watching the complete series of a series of unfortunate events on Netflix. I really like the wide window because of how aunt Josephine uses a rhyme to tell the Baudelaire's where she was. My favourite characters from the movies and all of the books are Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, Count Olaf, Esme Squalor (Or Esme Gigi Geniveve Squalor as she likes to be called). I would recommended this book to anyone who likes a bit of mystery and disguise's. thanks for reading this review hope you like it.
Captain Sandwich Turkey 09.12.2020
Quite good. Count Olaf has a very bad plan but he will hopefully never succeed.
Anonymous 04.10.2020
this book is the best !!! Clause ,violet and suny bodelaire go to stay with there aunt Josephene who is extremly carfull . along the way they meet a man named captain sham who the bodelaires are convinced is count olaF!!!Aunt josephene dosen't believe them antil she gets a call...
Senorita Cynthia Satellite 09.09.2020
I really enjoyed reading this tragic book. Couldn't stop reading it.
Anonymous 26.08.2020
it is about 3 children who have gone through lots of troubling things
Mademoiselle Esmerelda Shortbread 07.08.2020
it could be better
Viscountess Petronella Foxtail 03.09.2019
Funny, sad and amazing. Really interesting.
Anonymous 26.10.2014
