Edition details
Bad Beginning, The by Lemony Snicket. Frontispiece and four full-page colour illustrations and 15 integrated chapter motifs by JooHee Yoon. Afterword by Daniel Handler. Blue endpapers. Quarter-bound in yellow/green cloth with colour picture printed texture paper sides. Black slipcase with die-cut window and decorated with a wrap-around yellow design. 22.2x14cm. 184pp.
About the book
The Bad Beginning opens Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events with the sudden collapse of the Baudelaire children's comfortable world. Orphaned by a mysterious fire, Violet, Klaus and Sunny are sent to live with Count Olaf, a sinister actor whose interest in their inheritance soon becomes unmistakable. Violet's inventions, Klaus's reading and Sunny's unusually sharp teeth are their best defences against a guardian who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Combining Gothic atmosphere, literary wordplay and dark humour, this children's adventure introduces a world in which adults are often unreliable and courage depends on intelligence, resourcefulness and loyalty between siblings.
