The Wide Window A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3

Customer Reviews

The Wide Window

2007-04-19
In this book the Baudelaire children are put in the hands of their new guardian Aunt Josephine which is a grammar freak and is scared of everything. A Conflict in this book is that Count Olaf is discided in a sailors coustume and is calling himself Caption Sham,Aunt Josephine thinks this "Caption Sham" is a kind man. Finally the resolution is in the end when Sunny Baudelaire bites down on Caption Shams pegleg and shows the tatoo of an eye to everyone and is revealed that he is Count Olaf.A couple main events in the plot acrus when the kids hear a big crash mostly of broken glass. They rush out and fell a big rush of cold air. Then the Baudelaires see why there is a rush of wind, the window in the library had been broken and Aunt Josephine was nowhere to be found.The middle Baudelaire,Klaus,saw a note and started to read, this couldn't be right Aunt Josephine does not have any grammar marks in her writing but this note did the note said that Aunt Josephine was puting us in the hands of Caption Sham other wise known as Count Olaf in discide. Klaus knew something was wrong but what.Finally they called Mr.Poe who is the banker that places the Baudelaires with their new guardians. They looked over the note thinking who could have writen it then the Baudelaires thought Caption Sham had writen the note an pushed Aunt Josephine out the window. But when the kids checked to see that it wasn't her hand writing it was hers so there must be somthing fishy around here and it wasn't the lake. So that night the Baudelaires and Mr.Poe and Count Olaf went to a resturaunt to fill out papperwork during the talk between Mr.Poe and Caption Sham the Baudelaires stuck peppermints in their mouths and they are alergece to peppermints so they started to swell up and they got to go to Aunt Josephines house to get more time to figure out what the note was hidding. Finally they found out that there was a secret message hidden in the note that said Curled Cave. That ment Aunt Josephine was hidding in the Curled Cave. The Baudelaires finally got Aunt Josephine and were bringing her back when the leeches were coming so that ment they were traped. In the distants they saw a boat and Caption Sham was in it while they kids were getting onto the boat Caption Sham pushed Aunt Josephine into the water and sent her to her doom. When the Baudelaires got on land the youngest Baudelaire, Sunny Baudelaire bit down on Caption Shams pegleg and reaveled a tatoo of an eye that belonged only to Count Olaf. Sadly Count Olaf and his henchman escaped.

The Wide Window

2007-04-04
IN the story The Wide Window is a very unfortunate story.Just like the title of thr Series. The author Lemony Snicket knows how to make you fill bad for somthing that really didn't happen. I think this was a good book because it makes you fill like you are really there as you read. It is about how the three orphans go to there ant Josephines house and coount olaf sayes he is captin sham and then killes ant Josephine to get the three childern and there perints forchin they left behind after they died in a fire. It is a really good book so you SHOULD read it!!!!

Cornwall, NY Sixth Grader

2007-03-08
I am a 6th Grader. I think the book the series of unfortunate events: the wide window was a good book. It was a little bit boring. I liked how it was suspenseful. I also liked how the book was filled with interesting things. The book is about three children who have to face many problems with Count Olaf. The children go to live with there Aunt Josephine. They meet Captain Sham who they think is Captain Sham. My favorite part was when they find a note from there Aunt Josephine. To find out what the note said you should read the book.
I didn't like some of the parts also. I didn't like the part where they were in the sail boat and were being attacked by the leeches. I didn't like that because it was a little bit stupid how the leeches attacked. If you like things that could get people eaten by leeches then I think you should read this book. I also didn't like the part where Aunt Josephine may be thrown off of a boat. I also didn't like the part when the orphans try and steel a boat. To find out what parts you don't like than I think that you should read this book.
There were some other parts that I liked. One part that I liked was when they moved into Aunt Josephine's house. They found out that she is a very scared person. I thought that was kind of funny. I also liked the part when they discovered the code left in Aunt Josephine's note. I hop that you read and like this book. KM

Cornwall, NY Sixth Grader

2007-03-08
I am a sixth grader. I read the book The Series of Unfortunate Events #3, The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket. I thought it was a pretty decent book. I have read the first and second Series of Unfortunate Events and I think this was the worst of the books. The reason I think this one was the worst is because there was no entertaining parts. It was just very boring.

Basically the story is about the three Baulidares on another adventure to another "owner." This time they get sent to their Aunt Josephine near Lake Lachrymose. Her house sits up on a big hill with only pillars holding it up. Aunt Josephine is afraid of everything since her husband Ilk died. The orphans encounter Count Olaf once again and
he plans to make them his. As hurricane Herman is approaching they can smell something is going to go wrong. Of course no one believes that "this man" is really Count Olaf. How do the Baulidares prove that he is really Count Olaf? Well, read The Series of Unfortunate Events #3 The Wide Window to find out.

I would probably not recommend this book to people because the plot of this story is not well written. But I would defiantly recommend the first two Series of Unfortunate Events. I am going to keep on reading the books in this series. So if I were you I would probably skip just this book because it is just a waste of your time.

T.W

The Wide Window

2007-03-08
The Wide Window
By Lemony Snicket

I would give The Wide Window 5 stars. If you like stories that are fiction you may like this book.
This book is about three brilliant children. Their names are Violet, Klaus, Sunny. Their lives are getting destroyed by an evil villain named Count Olaf. Also followed by his horrible army,
They are living with their aunt in a boring little town. Their aunt is afraid of everything and oddly lives over her biggest fear...Lake Lacherymose (it is over a cliff on a hill)
Count Olaf shows up disguised as a sailor. Nobody believes he is really Count Olaf. The children try to convince people that is him.
Throughout the book mysteries happen and the three children run into some of Count Olaf's friends. This is a good book.

Fun and exciting!

2008-03-30
'The Wide Window' is the third book in the Lemony Snicket "Series of Unfortunate Events". The Baudelaire children are put in the care of a distant relation, "Aunt Josephine", who is a grammar freak. Shortly after their arrival, they run into their foe who this time is masquerading as Captain Sham, a renter of sailboats. Aunt Josephine is gone soon, and was forced to leave a note giving the children to Sham. This would be too predictable, but the children know who he is immediately and we are told. Mr. Poe, tho, doesn't believe the children and the excitement is on as the orphans must take one of Captain Sham's sailboats, battle a hurricane, and figure out a rescue device before their boat sinks into the huge lake, full of leeches. Fine reading that entertains and keeps one at the edge of their seat.

How the Children Escaped: The Wide Window

2007-12-14
The book I have read is called The Series of Unfortunate Events, The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket. This book is a fantasy.

This story begins with the three Baudelaire children. Klaus, Violet, and Sunny are three of the main characters. One day, the Baudelaire children got into a cab to go to their guardian, their Aunt Josephine, who has many fears. She lives by a lake and her house is high in the air. The Baudelaire's went to the store once with their Aunt Josephine to get some food, and right then and there Violet ran into Count Olaf. For those who don't know Count Olaf is trying to kill the children because of their fortune their parents left behind when they died. No one believed the children though, because Count Olaf was in disguise as Captain Sham. Later on in the story, the Baudelaire's find out that Aunt Josephine has a library, but only full of grammar books. The children wonder why there aren't any books about the lake or anything else. Aunt Josephine told them that her husband had drowned in that lake because of the water leeches in the lake, and she ever wanted to look at another book about the lake again. So one day Aunt Josephine was eating dinner with the children when the phone rang, It was so called "Captain Sham" really Count Olaf. Violet answered the phone since Aunt Josephine was scared to. The next thing you know is the children are in there beds when all of a sudden they hear a big CRASH! It was the wide window in the library! Aunt Josephine had jumped out the window leaving a note though, it said that she had decided to leave the children in the hands of Captain Sham. The letter had many grammar errors though, that was unusual about Aunt Josephine too! The many errors it had left a message for the children saying Curled Cave. This probably meant that she was hiding there. So the children looked up about the Cured Cave, and got on a sailboat to go and get her. The children barely got in the sailboat because of one of Count Olaf's helper, but they managed. They got to Curled Cave, but Aunt Josephine would not leave. He finally left when Klaus said that realtors would come. When they were in the boat they were over the part where the leeches were located. Aunt Josephine was horrified since she had just eaten. Leeches attack people down by food! When they are getting attacked by the leeches Count Olaf comes. And the rest you will have to read to know the ending.

I liked this book very much. It just might be the best book I have ever read. I like this book because of all of its details and actions! It was a very interesting book! Something you will want to read. I think this book is suitable for a 4th , 5th, or a 6th grader.

Awesome reading by Tim Curry

2007-12-08
Tim Curry does an excellent job at reading through this book. He is very dramatic, and makes the characters believable. :)

This is my favorite Olaf invention

2007-08-21
His appearance in this book is my favorite disguise, although the next one is groan good. The kids go to their Aunt Josephine's house over Lake Lachrymose and is extremely agoraphobic and paranoid of anything bad happening. This one is the first book to truly put a sad set of events in place and make the entire setting feel gloomy. I feel bad at Aunt Jospehine's demise, not because she's nice, but because I hoped she would get better by being around the kids. My favorite moment has to be when the orphans are going to borrow a boat from the harbor and must get around Olaf's associate whose look is ambiguous and it makes the children pause when discussing him.

The Constant Chase

2007-04-20
Count Olaf is back and he is definitely ready to attack! Have you ever encountered an evil genius that is obsessed with eyes, has the tattoo of an eye on his ankle, and has only one eyebrow? Have you ever encountered someone that knows your every move? This sounds like a horrible nightmare doesn't it? Well, in the lives of the three Baudelaire children, this would be their living nightmare. The Baudelaire parents died in a fire and Violet (14), Klaus (11), and Sunny (3) have switched from guardian to guardian since then. Their current is their far off aunt, Aunt Josephine. She was of no help when Count Olaf A.K.A. Captain Sham attacks again. She was of no help for the simple fact that Aunt Josephine (sad to say) was afraid of everything!!!...Yes, everything! Stoves, doorknobs, and even retailers, you name it, she was afraid of it. The kids try to rely on her but right in time, she commits suicide.

The rest of the story is about if the letter that Aunt Josephine wrote was something that was real or fake. In her letter she mentions that the kids are to be under the care of Captain Sham. Now, the Baudelaires have to search for the truth behind the mystery of their Aunt Josephine and run away from Captain Sham.

This book is a suspenseful thriller that is mysterious and sad. This book contains a diversity of genres that many teens would love! Drama, mystery, suicide, and the treacherous schemes the villain cooks up full this book. I recommend this to anyone who enjoys the exciting novels with shocking ending. I would recommend the first two books before reading this one though.

- Valli Chittajallu