What comes next? A Series of Unfortunate Events

Finding new pukapuka for your tamariki can be a challenge, especially when they can get through a big series in just a couple of weeks. Well, the library is here to help! In our series "What Comes Next?" we try and tackle the tricky challenge of helping you find the next book after a great series.

In this guide we are focusing on the delightfully dreary Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, with humorous recommendations for those who enjoyed the series.

A Series of Unfortunate Events has delighted children with the Baudelaires woeful escapades for well over two decades now and the series has only grown in popularity following the Netflix adaptation. While no one is quite like Lemony Snicket, we've put together our best picks for tamariki who loved this series.

Updated October 22, 2024
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The field guide
DiTerlizzi, Tony.
Paper Book
After moving into their elderly aunt's old house, three siblings experience unexplainable events and discover a magical new world in this first book in the Spiderwick Chronicles. After finding a mysterious, handmade field guide in the attic of the ramshackle old mansion they've...

Younger kids

O orfanato da Srta. Peregrine para Crianças Peculiares
Riggs, Ransom
Paper Book

Older kids

Good neighbors
Thompson, Colin
Paper Book
A family of wizards and witches living in an ordinary neighborhood in an ordinary town decides that they have had enough of the noisy family living next-door and makes them disappear.

Younger kids

Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch : a novel
Gaiman, Neil.
Paper Book
Two manic British guys, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, present an irresistible story of the world's end, in the tradition of Douglas Adams and Monty Python meeting Stephen King. TheApocalypse has never been funnier.

Older kids

The graveyard book
Gaiman, Neil.
Paper Book
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, bring raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the...

Older kids

The bad beginning
Snicket, Lemony.
CD
Dear Listener, I'm sorry to say that the audiobook you arc holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very beginning of...
Skulduggery Pleasant
Landy, Derek.
Paper Book
Meet Skulduggery Pleasant Ace Detective Snappy Dresser Razor-tongued Wit Crackerjack Sorcerer and Walking, Talking, Fire-throwing Skeleton --as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve-year...

Older kids


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