Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people the unworldly spectacle the fabulous freaks? A carnival is a place for good family fun as long as one has a family that is. For the Baudelaire orphans their time at the carnival turns out to be yet another episode in a now unbearable series of unfortunate events. In fact in this appalling ninth instalment in Lemony Snickets serial the siblings must confront a terrible lie a caravan and Chabo the wolf baby. With millions of readers worldwide and the Baudelaires fate turning from unpleasant to unseemly it is clear that Lemony Snicket has taken nearly all the fun out of childrens books. Ages 10+.