Daniel Handler
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"Daniel Handler" is an American writer. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket.

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It's full of depressing details about the children's lives, ... and, I'm sorry to say, it's the longest in the series. So in terms of total misery, it's quite a lot to deal with well, both in terms of the number of pages and the amount of misery per page.

People can expect poisonous mushrooms, ... And then only if they open the book.

The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her.

I was interested in finding ways to do dark comedy that were actually dark and comic.

And she has a fairly consistent political agenda. She's a baby, so individual liberty is a developing idea in her psyche.

Book thirteen marks the return of a reptile previously gone missing.

Watch Your Mouth.

A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among people who write and publish them, is that they did get to be in this unrecognized ghetto for a long time.

I don't know whether it's digital effects or if they trained a baby to bite through steel. I'm not sure what method was used.