The perfectly creepy, amusing book that inspired Tim Burton, Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro.
A is for AMY who fell down the stairs
B is for BASIL assaulted by bears
C is for CLARA who wasted away...
... and so it goes on, an A to Z of poor little orphans and their untimely ends. (Right up to the unfortunate ZILLA, who simply drank too much gin.)
For older readers with a dark sense of humour.