Did you know why bad things keep happening to the good children of Lemony Snicket stories? This article about the film adaptation from the Sydney Morning Herald let's you know the story behind the stories.

The film is based on the first three books by Lemony Snicket, the nom de plume of Daniel Handler, a 33-year-old San Francisco writer....

Handler's father is a Jew who escaped Germany before the war; the books are influenced by the fact of the Holocaust; they deny the idea that good behaviour always gets its rewards, because the Baudelaires are good children and horrible things happen to them.