The Beatrice Letters
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LC Class | PZ7.S6795 Bea 2006 |
The Beatrice Letters is a book by Lemony Snicket. It is a tangential prequel to the children's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events, and was published shortly before the thirteenth and final installment. According to its cover, the book is "suspiciously linked to Book the Thirteenth", although the British edition merely states that it "contains a clue to Book the Thirteenth".
The book consists of thirteen
The book contains twelve punch-out letters (of the alphabet, as opposed to correspondence, although the ambiguity is intentional), and each is mentioned in different, interesting ways. An example is that the first letter is an E, juxtaposed against a card from Snicket to Beatrice, in which a map Snicket had drawn forms an E. The cardstock letters can appear to be anagrams of "Beatrice Sank", Beatrice being the boat in the book The End, and "A Snicket Brae", as it has been said that Lemony Snicket lived in the hills for some time. The book also includes a poster of what appears to be the wreckage of the Beatrice, along with a cave, Klaus's glasses, Violet's hair ribbon, and Sunny's cookbooks.
Over 350,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States in 2006.[2]
See also
References
- Kidsreads. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ^ Roback, Diane (March 26, 2007). "Lemony Endings, Sweet". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 254. p. 43.