Packed with alliteration, literary references and mystery, Daniel Handler’s series did something other books would not: took children seriously
‘If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other one,” starts The Bad Beginning, the first instalment of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. With that sentence alone, first published 20 years ago, Snicket – AKA author Daniel Handler – hooked a very particular audience. After all, there’s nothing kids want to do more than prove adults wrong.
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