He is an avid reader who also loves to study things, like the spiny crabs in a tidepool.
Twelve-year old Klaus is also very smart. Fourteen-year-old Violet, the oldest of the siblings, skips rocks into the water while thinking of an invention that could return the rock to her. As the weather is cloudy, they have the beach to themselves. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are on their favorite beach, Briny Beach.
The book is aptly named as it does indeed have a bad beginning. The dark and humorous series inspired the 2004 film Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. The book is illustrated by Brett Helquist. After a fire, the orphaned children are sent to live with Count Olaf, who tries to steal their inheritance.
The book introduces the Baudelaire siblings, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans! (1999) is the first book in a well-known series of children’s novels, A Series of Unfortunate Events, written by Daniel Handler under his pen name, Lemony Snicket.
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