This is a Christmas story about a living lump of coal that falls off of a barbecue and wishes for a miracle to happen to him. He is very artistic and wants to become an artist. He then goes on a search and first finds an art gallery and thinks the art has been done by other lumps of coal, but ins...
Lemony Snicket tells a tale about a despondant bird who paints, and the friendly dog trying to cheer it up. Of course, cake and hats with panache and a mezzo-soprano and a goat are involved. (It's Lemony Snicket, are you really surprised?)If you know a little one who likes big words, or if you're...
I was not a fan of this book at first and then I started seeing all the connections through the pictures and the words. There were thirteen words that were focused on in this story and as each word was presented it was tied back to the previous words that had been talked about. This would be a gr...
Read this without the CD (the local library removed it)...Snicket is a genius, and I'm sure the CD might even push this to a 5-star rating.Recommended for all those who love Snicket's work, and/or anyone seeking to teach the pieces of the orchestra.UPDATE: After acquiring the CD, I've upgraded th...
The Composer is Dead written by Lemony Snicket is a dark, funny and brilliant way to introduce kids into the art of Orchestra with a twist. We see in the book the investigator try and solve the composers death. As he is doing this, we learn much about music and its history. The instruments comes ...
The composer is dead is about a composer that goes through a series of interesting events that leads to an investigation trying to solve his death. The first scene of the book is the composer deciding what instruments are going to play what. A joke is told about a dead composer who is decomposing...
The Composer is Dead by Lemony Snicket, Music by Nathaniel Stookey, illustrations by Carson Ellis – Wow. Talk about a fascinating creation. I chose to play the audio version and read along. First: LOVED the ad lib throughout the audio version, threw my kiddo many times as we listened, which is go...
I know some individuals who would rather be caught dead than read books written for a younger audience in mind. This book is a very quick read but I find it very silly and wonderful. I truly feel like Lemony Snicket understands kids. His writing is light-hearted and the story is odd but a wonder ...
Chapter One There are two reasons why a writer would end a sentence with the word "stop" written entirely in capital letters STOP. The first is if the writer were writing a telegram, which is a coded message sent through an electrical wire STOP. In a telegram, the word "stop" in all capital lette...
Soon afterward, yours ended. Chapter One The book you are holding in your two hands right now-assuming that you are, in fact, holding this book, and that you have only two hands--is one of two books in the world that will show you the difference between the word "nervous" and the word "anxious." ...
Chapter One A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled," describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went alo...
Chapter One No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read. For instance, if you are walking in the mountains, and you don't read the sign that says "Beware of Cliff" because you are bus...
THE WIDE WINDOW Chapter One If you didn't know much about the Baudelaire orphans, and you saw them sitting on their suitcases at Damocles Dock, you might think that they were bound for an exciting adventure. After all, the three children had just disembarked from the Fickle Ferry, which had ...
The word "bear," for instance, can refer to a rather husky mammal found in the woods, as in the sentence "The bear moved quietly toward the camp counselor, who was too busy putting on lipstick to notice," but it can also refer to how much someone can handle, as in the sentence "The loss of my cam...
For instance, a book that began with the sentence "Once upon a time there was a family of cunning little chipmunks who lived in a hollow tree" would probably contain a story full of talking animals who get into all sorts of mischief. A book that began with the sentence "Emily sat down and looked ...
Chapter One Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action. If this...
Sad men write them down Champter One After a great deal of time examining oceans, investigating rainstorms, and staring very hard at several drinking fountains, the scientists of the world developed a theory regarding how water is distributed around our planet, which they have named "the water cy...
Chapter One When my workday is over, and I have closed my notebook, hidden my pen, and sawed holes in my rented canoe so that it cannot be found, I often like to spend the evening in conversation with my few surviving friends. Sometimes we discuss literature. Sometimes we discuss the people who a...
The night was quiet, which would mean she would have to make practically no noise at all. The night also had a slight breeze, and when she pictured herself swinging in the breeze, clinging to a rope made of ugly clothing, she almost gave up entirely. And the night was dark, so it was hard to see ...
You, however, did not. Chapter One The stretch of road that leads out of the city, past Hazy Harbor and into the town of Tedia, is perhaps the most unpleasant in the world. It is called Lousy Lane. Lousy Lane runs through fields that are a sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees p...
Chapter One If you were going to give a gold medal to the least delightful person on Earth, you would have to give that medal to a person named Carmelita Spats, and if you didn't give it to her, Carmelita Spats was the sort of person who would snatch it from your hands anyway. Carmelita Spats was...