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Poison for Breakfast
By Lemony Snicket
Illustrated by Margaux Kent
Penguin Teen
Ages 12 to 112
The comparison we get, a reduction we know. It’s a clarity that Lemony Snicket seems to share, as he tries to solve a poser of a trip of paper, found underneath his door, temperament a difference “You had poison for breakfast.”
Having consumed a dish that morning of “Tea / with honey, / a square of toast / with cheese, / one sliced pear, / and an egg ideally prepared,” he takes a puzzling summary to heart and tries to establish that partial of his dish might have been poisoned.
In a process, he gives us copiousness of food for thought, leavened with visit doses of humour and word play — not to discuss flitting references and author’s records that will send zealous readers to a library, in office of other writers that now piqué their interest.
The Ogress and a Orphans
By Kelly Barnhill
HarperCollins
Ages 9 to 14
While Snicket’s slim volume defines distraction (literally and figuratively), Barnhill’s large novel some-more closely approximates a storytelling of a classical angel story — if usually since a womanlike hobgoblin who lives during a corner of city is a executive character, apropos a oblivious concentration of a xenophobic strain brought out in townspeople who allow to a claims of a hypnotizing mayor.
Prior to his arrival, a residents of Stone-in-the-Glen all got along, though afterwards a city was strike with several fires; a library burnt down, afterwards a school, afterwards several other buildings.