Ventanal El Unfortunate Events Spanish
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Catastrophes and misfortune proceed to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they’re sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little shelter versus Count Olaf’s treachery.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1741253 in Books
- Published on: 2003-11
- Original language: Spanish
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .77″ h x 5.28″ w x 7.70″ l, .60 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
| ReviewIn The Bad Beginning, things, well, commence severely for the three Baudelaire orphans. And sadly, events only worsen in The Reptile Room. In the third in Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events, there is still no hope on the horizon for these poor children. Their adventures are stimulating and memorable, but, as the author points out, “exciting and unforgettable like being chased by a werewolf through a field of thorny bushes at midnight with not anyone around to help you.”
This story begins when the orphans are being escorted by the well-meaning Mr. Poe to yet another distant relative who has consorted to take them in since their parents were killed in a horrid fire. Aunt Josephine, their new guardian, is their second cousin’s sister-in-law, and she is afraid of everything. Her house (perched precariously on a cliff above Lake Lachrymose) is freezing because she is afraid of the radiator exploding, she eats cold cucumber soup because she’s scared of the stove, and she doesn’t answer the telephone due to potential electrocution dangers. Her biggest joy in life is grammar, however, and when it comes to the proper use of the English language, she is fearless.
But just when she must be the most fearful–when Count Olaf creeps his way back to find the Baudelaire orphans and steal their fortune–she in some manner lets her guard down. Once again, it is up to Violet, Klaus, and Sunny to get themselves out of danger. Will they succeed? We haven’t the stomach to tell you. (Ages 9 to 12) –Karin Snelson
From Publishers WeeklyAuthor Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) reads volumes three and four of his Series of Unfortunate Events saga. A snappy, techno tune by a group called the Gothic Archies serves as toe-tapping introduction to Handler’s chipper performance of his humorously melodramatic tales. The firstborn two audiobooks in the series, performed by British actor Tim Curry, were freed by Listening Library in March. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From School Library JournalGrade 5-7-This is “Book the Third” in a series in regards to the wealthy and clever but ominous Baudelaire children who were orphaned in a tragic fire. Pursued by the evil Count Olaf, who murdered their parents and their last caregiver, 14-year-old Violet, 12-year-old Klaus, and baby Sunny are sent to elderly Aunt Josephine, a strange, fearful widow and grammarian. She lives in a house built on precarious stilts on the side of a hill overlooking Lake Lachrymose, populated by killer leeches. Of course, Count Olaf tracks them down and, dissembled as a sailboat captain, fools Aunt Josephine-at least for a while. Olaf is in the end exposed but not before he pushes Aunt Josephine into the leech-infested waters. So, the Baudelaires ought to find a new caregiver, who will be revealed to readers in “Book the Fourth.” The writing is tongue-in-cheek John Bellairs, E. Nesbit, or Edward Eager with a little Norton Juster thrown in. The style is similar to the some books with old houses and rocky shores in Maine or Great Britain including the Edward Goreyesque illustrations. Unfortunately, the book misses the mark. The narrator is humorous but intrusive, explaining words and supplying galore apparent clues that surface later. Aunt Josephine’s neverending correction of vocabulary and grammar, while at initial humorous, becomes annoying. The book is genuinely not bad; it just tries too hard and there are so some similar books that are much better.
Marlene Gawron, Orange County Library, Orlando, FL
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
 For fans of Gorey (who need to fill the Harry Potter wait)
By A
If you enjoy the dark humor of Edward Gorey, this series will probably enchant. The characters are intelligent and sympathetic. However, while the books may be a tad bit dark for some younger readers, portions of this series are too simplistic for more mature readers. Snickett often writes in definitions for “big” words used. When the definitions stay in context, they’re amusing and maintain the atmosphere. When the definitions are more dictionary like, they distract. The Series of Unfortunate Events, nonetheless, is a great series that children of all ages can enjoy. If anything, kids will sympathize with the Baudelaires frustration with the adults around them. For a turn on the lighter side – I recommend Gail Levine’s “Princess Tales” series.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
 Snicket’s best, so far
By John Cassels
As far as “darkness” or “inappropriateness” for youngsters goes, I tried reading *The Bad Beginning* to my 7-year-old a while ago and he begged off after one chapter, saying that it made him feel too sad; but the other day he took it off the shelf and — on his own — is now half-way through “Book the Second” of this series, *The Reptile Room.* I’m happy to report that he has a real treat in store when he turns to this volume of the Baudelaire orphan’s adventures, for it is easily the best of the lot. Longer than either of its predecessors, it is also more relaxed and assured — not that the pace is slack (far from it), it’s simply that Snicket is more at home with his bag of tricks and is beginning to manipulate his deliberately limited, muted palette with a master’s verve. Fearful, grammar-haunted Aunt Josephine is a wonderful, painfully funny addition to the improbable constellation of distant “family” through which it is the Baudelaire’s sad fate to pass, and her second most notable quirk bears an interesting relationship to Snicket’s own frequent definitions of “big words.” This last feature seems to bother a lot of people, but I think these folks are trying to bully something which is primarily an *aesthetic* device of great flexibility into an overly-rigid pedagogical frame. These books aren’t nasty things which are — like certain exilirs –nevertheless good for you, they’re wonderfully entertaining works of verbal art, and if one had to troll their depths for messages, one would find, cumulatively, that these have more to do with self-reliance and competence than with any of the hideous treatment the Baudelaire’s endure or the corpses that are left in their wake.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Tragedy follows…
By hiphopgirl_1000
“The Wide Window” is in my view the most sad and tragic of all the books in Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” centered on the life of the orphans Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. In book the third the Baudelairs are taken by their lawyer Mr.Poe to live with Aunt Josephine at her house on the top of the mountain at Lake Lachrymose, home of the venomous Lachrymose Leeches. Aunt Josephine is scared of everything and expects diaster to always be around the corner. She thinks she will get burned by using the stove so the Baudelairs have to settle with the most awful cold cucumber soup they have ever tasted. Plus Aunt Josephine loves nothing more than grammar and constantly corrects the orphans mistakes. However Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are thankful that Count Olaf hasn’t appeared in the quiet Lake Lachrymose yet. Their luck doesn’t last long. It seems this time Count Olaf disguises himself as Captain Sham a sea captain!!! He totally fools Aunt Josephine but not the Baudelairs! Mysteriously Aunt Josephine seems to have commited suicide after a phone call to Captain Sham and has left the children under his care! Can the Baudelair orphans foil his evil plans once again?
I found this book to be very sad even though it was still hilirous. Lemony Snicket truly works his magic in these books. I can’t wait to read his autobiography!
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