While at the beach, they learn that their home has been destroyed by a fire and that their parents have perished. The baby Sunny is only understood by her parents and siblings. He is an avid reader who also loves to study things, like the spiny crabs in a tidepool. Twelve-year old Klaus is also very smart.

Fourteen-year-old Violet, the oldest of the siblings, skips rocks into the water while thinking of an invention that could return the rock to her. As the weather is cloudy, they have the beach to themselves. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are on their favorite beach, Briny Beach.

The book is aptly named as it does indeed have a bad beginning. The dark and humorous series inspired the 2004 film Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. This story follows the Baudelaire children as they. The book is illustrated by Brett Helquist. This is a book summary of The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket in the Series of Unfortunate Events series. After a fire, the orphaned children are sent to live with Count Olaf, who tries to steal their inheritance. The book introduces the Baudelaire siblings, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. By Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist, ISBN: 9780064407663, Hardcover. The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans! (1999) is the first book in a well-known series of children’s novels, A Series of Unfortunate Events, written by Daniel Handler under his pen name, Lemony Snicket.

The bad beginning series