13 Words audiobook

this is a nice picture book by an author i like on a subject i like and therefore it is good.that's all there is to say on the subject!this is part of a project i'm doing where i review books i read a long time ago and in doing so enlighten us all.

I borrowed this book mostly because I love Lemony Snicket, and sometimes get a little tired of all the accessible literature that I read to my toddler. I didn't expect that she would like it, because she's not even two and the story is a bit surreal. Imagine my surprise when she started talking about it all day and insisting that we read it over and over again. She loves to say "panache" and "haberdashery" and "mezzo-soprano"... and why wouldn't she? They're fun words with fun sounds and different from the mundane day-to-day language that we usually experience. The illustrations are also fun... there are lots of little details to keep adults entertained, while the primary images are easy enough for children to decode. My daughter especially loves the pictures of the different kinds of cakes and the baby who owns the haberdashery. I would recommend this book to parents who aren't scared of the absurd and who have children who are hungry for language.

Dear Mr. Snicket,Well. It would appear that during the time elapsed between my having finished The Dark and my having finished 13 Words--a generous, languorous period of at least 15 minutes--you did not have time to email me with an offer of employment. I find this galling in especial due to the fact that I would have *particularly* well enjoyed sitting in your studio eating a jam biscuit while you read this story to Maira Kalman, a genius.The only thing a sane person could deduce from this oversight is the fact that you must be too busy listening to your stories and eating jam biscuits yourself, which makes it only all the more sensible that you hire me immediately.May I reassert my promise to pay gobs of attention to your pets, at this point, as well.Hoping this finds you at your very best,I remain,Yours--HKMP.S. If you have no pets for me to pay attention to I can provide my own.P.P.S. This book is wonderful, and I adore it.

Un hermoso, raro y fantástico libro infantil escrito por uno de mis autores favoritos. En esta ocasión, una pájara y un perro viven en casa de una mujer messo-soprano. El animal está alicaído y su amigo hará lo que sea para levantarle el animo.Una idea genial de aprender palabras nuevas a la par de ir leyendo una historia disparatada, lleno de color. Recuerden que #ElMundoAquiEsTranquilo.PD: ahora me pregunto quien sería la pájara en todo este universo sombrío.PPD: si quieren saber donde lo leí, les paso el link por privado.

Oh, I loved this admittedly weird book. The last page is priceless, as is much of the book. I turned the book at times to see everything and 2 of the titles/text of the books shown are very cute.The story is a silly cumulative tale that can work as a counting book, a vocabulary building book, a sort of philosophy book, and mostly just a for a good laugh book. It has both silliness and seriousness. I laughed (or at least grinned) a couple of times, but there was much sadness in it too.And I don’t want to sound as though this is a deep story because it really isn’t, but it can be read at different levels, at least if the reader strains to do so.Mostly, it’s just a fun book.the pictures are very cute and quirky. I can’t say I was overly fond of some of them (the goat, etc.) but some were just adorable, including the text of the books, the hats, and especially all those cakes that would have had me yearning for cake if I hadn’t just eaten before I read this book.I thought that this book was creative, inventive, educational for kids, and enjoyable. I was in just the proper mood for it, hence the 5 stars; at another time I might have given it only 4 stars.

Lemony Snicket brings out the extravagant side of writing into picture books. 13 words opens a world of new words for kids with a "despondent" bird, a dog and a goat.13 words is not the usual picture-book, but definitely reflects how they should be. A challenging read for kids, but definitely a fun ride and a great learning device as well.

Quick, quirky read.

Maira Kalman has an illustration style unlike any other. Her art is immediately recognizable. She has illustrated several books, for adults as well as children, and has been featured on the cover of The New Yorker multiple times. She paints odd-looking people and animals that look somewhat human which, in 13 Words, are set against surreal landscapes. Her palette is best described as edible (with the hues of ribbon candy) and her art is playful.Lemony Snicket, author of the highly popular A Series of Unfortunate Events, has a flair for words. Though the majority of his books are for older readers, his voice is perfect for the picture book audience. This story is based around thirteen words—some familiar, others unusual. The diverse list is displayed inside the front cover where the books description would normally be. Surely there are some words children will not know. Word number 1 is bird. Word number 2 is despondent.Bird is despondent, dog(4) would like to cheer her up. While bird is busy(5) sulking and painting ladders, dog visits a haberdashery(9) owned by a baby(11). These words, and seven more, are joined in a lovely story about how dog worked to cheer up his friend bird. Parents take note: there’s a song to sing in this book. I’ve found when singing made up songs to little ones, the worse it sounds, the funnier it is. So belt it out!

To me this book is a hilarious parody of a standard "vocabulary building" picture book: 13 words for you to know. But then the list of words includes bird, despondent, goat, convertible... I mean, what reader is the target audience? Which is part of what makes it so funny to me.After I read it aloud (it's a great book for reading aloud if you use that slightly sugared up "let's all learn together" tone), I realized it could, actually, but used as a book to read with a reluctant reader, or one who has low reading confidence. If you can read 90% of a book that includes words like aria and mezzo-soprano, you can read anything, can't you?

This is a bizarre but beautiful picture book featuring a plot loosely strung together by 13 individual words. It was one of my son's favorite books from about 3-5 years of age, and I ended up making a song for the ending poem that we still sing together. It's weird and arguably dark, but not too dark and not too weird, and oh just read the book to your kids because there's nothing cuter than a 3-year-old who talks about "panache." This is probably my favorite picture book ever because the artwork is complex in its simplicity while the story is simplistically complex.

The ever clever Lemony Snicket, author of The Series of Unfortunate Events, has created a surreal and humorous story out of 13 seemingly unrelated words. The story begins with a bird (word #1) who is despondent (word #2) so he eats some cake (word #3) with his friend, a dog (word #4). The dog decides to cheer the bird up by getting him a hat (word #8) from the haberdashery (word #9). The bird likes her hat very much and then a mezzo-soprano (word #13) walks in with more cake and sings about the events of the day. Everyone eats cake, but the bird is still just a little bit despondent.Snicket, the pen name for author Daniel Handler, doesn’t just connect the dots in this story, he adds his unique blend of ironic and black humor to create a surreal story that is oddly captivating. You really don’t know what the next word will be. What new event will be revealed? Who will walk through the door next? The vocabulary is impressive and sophisticated, but Snicket manages to define words within in the story in a witty way. There are details that seem to be included in the story, just because they tickled Snicket’s funny bone, such as the goat in the spiffy jacket that drives the convertible. You may ask “why?”, but I think Snicket might answer, “why not?”The painterly illustrations create a surreal visual world to go along with the text. Realism has no place here. Perspective and relative size are disregarded. For instance, as the dog and the goat drive to town, the road winds through a landscape of multicolored hills, giant animals, twisted trees, and even an angel with a tambourine. The colors are bright and the brush strokes are proudly displayed.Full Review at Picture-Book-a-Day: http://picturebookaday.blogspot.com/2...

I was not a fan of this book at first and then I started seeing all the connections through the pictures and the words. There were thirteen words that were focused on in this story and as each word was presented it was tied back to the previous words that had been talked about. This would be a great story to teach vocabulary. The book does a great job showing and telling what each words means. The pages were vibrant and active and depicted the essences of the word being talked about. If the author wouldn’t have done such a good job at defining the words then some words in this book would have been too advanced for the age group it was targeted it towards. Such as, haberdashery, a child is most likely not going to know what this word means, but the author does a good job at continuing the story while still defining the word in terms that a child will understand, “a haberdashery is a store where you might find a good hat”. The child now knows that a haberdashery is a hat store!

Oh, how I misjudged our beloved Lemony Snicket. Given 13 words, I thought I knew what was going to happen. As usual, there is no predicting a Snicket story. From cake to haberdashery to panache, the reader is taken on colourful journey as dog attempts to cheer up despondent bird. This is all accompanied by illustrations that hint at Chagall in colour and dream-like quality. They are charming and very interesting to look at - and you’ll have fun playing continuity finder from page to page. Certainly a fun read for a adult. You might to questions to answer if you're reading to a child, for this is certainly not your average children's picture book.

quirky tale introducing words - some sight words and some longer words... like "despondent". the difficult words are described, and the tale should be enjoyable for children as well as adults, though adults will find it more quirky and amusing. Near the end, a Mezzo-soprano comes to bird's house after a long day singing and sings a song about bird's day.This is a picture book for adults masquerading as a picture book for children, but is truly something enjoyable. It's up there in terms of quirky with "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" which you should read if you have not yet done so.