{"title": "The Carnivorous Carnival", "key": "/works/OL15104132W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL20588A"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1514640A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL8058693A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Dear reader,\r\n\r\nThe word \"carnivorous,\" which appears in the title of this book, means \"meat-eating,\" and once you have read such a bloodthirsty word, there is no reason to read any further. This carnivorous volume contains such a distressing story that consuming any of its contents would be far more stomach-turning than even the most imbalanced meal.\r\n\r\nTo avoid causing discomfort, it would be best if I didn't mention any of the unnerving ingredients of this story, particularly a confusing map, an ambidextrous person, an unruly crowd, a wooden plank, and Chabo the Wolf Baby.\r\n\r\nSadly for me, my time is filled with researching and recording the displeasing and disenchanting lives of the Baudelaire orphans. But your time might be better filled with something more palatable, such as eating your vegetables, or feeding them to someone else.\r\n\r\nWith all due respect,\r\nLemony Snicket"}, "covers": [6793899, 755238, 8814593, 10192362, 8783107, 10344413, 8198504], "subjects": ["Brothers and sisters", "Brothers and sisters in fiction", "Carnivals", "Carnivals in fiction", "Fiction", "Humorous stories", "Juvenile fiction", "Orphans", "Orphans in fiction", "R\u00e9cits humoristiques anglais", "English Humorous stories", "Humorous stories, English", "Sunny Baudelaire (Fictitious character)", "Klaus Baudelaire (Fictitious character)", "Violet Baudelaire (Fictitious character)", "Children's fiction", "Orphans, fiction", "Brothers and sisters, fiction", "Fr\u00e8res et soeurs", "Orphelins", "F\u00eates foraines", "R\u00e9cits humoristiques", "Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse", "Literatura ameryka\u0144ska dla m\u0142odzie\u017cy", "T\u0142umaczenia polskie", "Recits humoristiques anglais", "Siblings, fiction"], "location": "/works/OL15104132W", "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL326111L"}, "position": "9"}], "genres": ["/tags/OL172T"], "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2010-04-29T20:14:24.074181"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-28T09:13:15.812311"}}