The Wide Window
Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
Paperback
(Scholastic, Inc., Jan. 1, 2001)
Dear Reader, If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphas, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick witted, but their lives, I am sorry to say, are fille dwith bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and the one you are holding may be the worst of them all. If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signaling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill you with despair. I will continue to record these tragic tales, for that is what I do. You, however, should decide for yourself whether you can possible endure this miserable story.
V