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New Lemony Snicket Prize

February 4, 2014

lemonysnickAre you a librarian? Are you faced with A Series of Unfortunate Events ? Have you handled them with integrity and dignity? You may just be the perfect candidate for a new award to be presented at the ALA (American Library Association) Midwinter conference. Children’s author David Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) who feels that “librarians have suffered enough” is establishing “The Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity” – a $3,000 prize to be given annually to a deserving librarian from Snicket’s “disreputable gains, along with an odd, symbolic object from his private stash, as well as a certificate, which may or may not be suitable for framing.” Read more about this award here and nominate your favorite deserving librarian by visiting this ALA website.

Laura

Lemony Snicket goes "noir" and plays the accordion

December 11, 2012

Snicket who could that beLemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler), author of the hugely popular 13-volume Series of Unfortunate Events for children and young adults, chatted yesterday on NPR’s Fresh Air with host Terry Gross. Just released is his new book Who Could That Be at This Hour?, a noir mystery, the first of the All the Wrong Questions series and a prequel to the first series. Moving away from the gothic genre, Handler decided it was about time for kids to have a noir mystery of their own to enjoy, with femme fatale and trench coated detective, and dialogue that pays homage to those wonderful scenes from The Maltese Falcon and the like. Handler also delighted david handlerlisteners with his singing, accompanying himself on the accordion. Why the accordion? Says Handler, “… I’m one of the few people in the history of the world to take up the accordion basically in order to meet women.” He added, “And the accordion is well, I mean, one nice thing is that if you play the accordion you’re probably the best accordion player anybody knows.”

Barbara L.

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