What We Are Reading: Hugo Cabret
Well, Katie read it and Paul read it after her. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, the 2008 Caldecott medal winner, comes in at 533 pages of words and pictures. The real-life premise is that Georges Méliès, the early film director who created movies including A Trip to the Moon, donated a collection of mechanical toys to a museum. This story picks up where a young boy rediscovers one of the mechanical automata in the museum's attic...
posted by Paul Pyzowski @ 10:32 AM
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2 Comments:
I was curious about this, is it good? Is it a comic?
It is very good, but it is a book written for children ages 8-12.
It is *not* a comic - the sections with text and pictures are distinct, for example a few chapters of text, followed by 10 pages of pictures, followed by another chapter of text. Both text and pictures advance the story.
The best way I can describe it is to imagine if Chris Van Allsburg wrote a novel.
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