If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, 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 filled with bad luck and misery.

Like handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately, in this miserable volume, I am afraid that Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire run into more than their fair share of slipperiness during their harrowing journey up–and down–a range of strange and distressing mountains.

If you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I’m afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether. The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don’t be fooled. If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery.

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery and despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on…The Hostile Hospital – There are many pleasant things to read about, but this book contains none of them.

In their desperate search for something lost, the Baudelaire children encounter new and terrible horrors, including mushrooms, a mechanical monster, a distressing message from a lost friend, and tap dancing. Ages 9 .

In the continuing, appalling tales of the Baudelaire siblings, the children are on the run having been falsely accused of murder, so they hide in the carnival, as part of Madame Lulu’s House of Freaks.

A guide to volcanoes with the gritty bits left in!

Geography with the gritty bits left in! Where in the world can you: Peer over the edge of a roaring waterfall?

A guide to oceans with the gritty bits left in! Read the reporter’s guide to the seabed
uncover the details of the Titanic’s last day

This is geography with the gritty bits left in! Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you clamber up some “Cracking Coasts”…Marvel! at the ginormous Giant’s Causeway,

Freaky Peaks takes the intrepid young explorer on a thrilling tour of the tallest mountains – from Everest to Kilimanjaro

Freaky Peaks takes the intrepid young explorer on a thrilling tour of the tallest mountains – from Everest to Kilimanjaro – encountering many dangers along the way, including glaciers, yetis, and avalanches.

Magnificently mustachioed madman Gussage St Vincent is back from the dead and set on using his pirate galleon time machine to become OVERLORD OF THE UNIVERSE.

‘Don’t move yet. I’m going out of the front door. They’ll rush me then. That’s your chance to go out the back way. Got that?’-‘Quite clear.’-‘Good! But don’t think I’m exaggerating. My chances of getting out of here alive are about one in a hundred.

Biggles, Algy and Ginger help a young lad evade a violent thief and find themselves plunged into a dangerous treasure hunt searching for a long-lost pirate hoard of gold in the Caribbean.