Lemony Snickets - Is it scary?

[Ceolas]

I'm thinking of this for my DD(age 7)'s birthday. She loves reading but cannot cope with anything scary. She had nightmares after Matilda

What do you think?

Yes they are fab and nice quick read not like ploughing through the HP books
I cannot recommend them highly enough

And definitely not scary? The picture on the cover looks a bit frightening!

kind of homourful scary - not like hp!

But if you have to read them to her you will have given up the will to live after the first 5 or 6 - they tend to drag on imo (but dd loved them...)

My 9 year has read them all and loves them - I hate them with a passion. They are not really scary and many children find them funny but it depends on how literal your child is - the humour is quite quirky.

Actually I think not.
The story begins with the children's parents being killed in a fire, and continue with the eldest being tricked into an underage marriage with a man with staring eyes tattooed on his ankles (etc.).

The books to my mind pull absolutely no punches emotionally - they're not scary as to monsters/ogres/ghosts whatever, but there are deeper ways of being frightening, and if you've got a sensitive soul I'd say no - certainly not at 7. Maybe 10.

My ds (8) is scared of everything, but found this fine.

Ok bink I don't think she could cope with the parents dying in a fire, etc. I think I'll wait.

Thanks all

Has your dd tried the Moomintroll books? (Link to lovely bargain Book People.)

They are very very gently eerie, well not even eerie - sort of exactly where cosy meets eerie. My 6yo dd adores them (so do I ...)