Book 1, "The Calamitous Commencement," is mentioned by Fern in "Fern & Persimmony Glitchet." Only a small amount of the cover is shown in an extremely blurry shot. Fern says that in the book, Duke Vladimir kidnaps the three Bronte orphans. He puts them in a box in front of an audience, and performs a magic act, making them disappear, then saying that there is no time in the show to make them reappear. Fern seems to have enjoyed this book a lot.