Bestselling author Lemony Snicket and award-winning illustrator Lisa Brown visit the Library!
April 27th, 2025
We hosted bestselling author Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) and award-winning illustrator Lisa Brown for a reading and signing of their new book Goldfish Ghost. Goldfish Ghost follows the story of a lonely goldfish ghost who floats out of his fish bowl to find company in his bayside town. Lemony and Lisa dazzled attendees with tales of beachside ghouls and lighthouse ladies.
Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts and Bottle Grove. His new book on writing And Then? And Then? What Else? is forthcoming from Liverlight/W.W. Norton in 2024. As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages, and have been adapted for film, stage and television, including the recent adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events for which he was awarded both the Peabody and the Writers Guild of America awards.
Lisa Brown is a New York Times bestselling illustrator, author and cartoonist. Her award-winning picture books include: The Airport Book, How to Be, Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert, Emily’s Blue Period by Cathleen Daly, and The Two Mutch Sisters by Carol Brendler. She has collaborated on three books with author Lemony Snicket: The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy, and Goldfish Ghost, and is the creator of the “Baby Be of Use” series of board books for McSweeney’s, (including the absolutely essential Baby Mix Me a Drink). Her first graphic novel, The Phantom Twin, and Long Story Short, her first collection of comics, both came out in 2020, right before the world locked down. Therefore, her latest book for young children is The Hospital Book, published in March, 2023.