I just HAD to re-read The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, since the movie is coming out today. Hugo is an orphan living in a Paris train station in the 1930s. His late father had discovered an automaton: a human-like figure that looks like it's ready to write something. Now Hugo has the automaton, and he's trying to repair it with parts that he steals from a toymaker's booth. He meets the toymaker's god-daughter, who has a special key that fits the automaton...but why? What can the connection possibly be? The illustrations in this book make the reading of it a very different experience, as though the reader is being drawn into an old-fashioned movie. And of course, that's part of the plot, when we discover that the toymaker is actually a famous man from the filmmaking industry. The book was the Caldecott Medal winner in 2008, and it truly is a wonderful book to read...and re-read.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
The movie is here!!
I just HAD to re-read The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, since the movie is coming out today. Hugo is an orphan living in a Paris train station in the 1930s. His late father had discovered an automaton: a human-like figure that looks like it's ready to write something. Now Hugo has the automaton, and he's trying to repair it with parts that he steals from a toymaker's booth. He meets the toymaker's god-daughter, who has a special key that fits the automaton...but why? What can the connection possibly be? The illustrations in this book make the reading of it a very different experience, as though the reader is being drawn into an old-fashioned movie. And of course, that's part of the plot, when we discover that the toymaker is actually a famous man from the filmmaking industry. The book was the Caldecott Medal winner in 2008, and it truly is a wonderful book to read...and re-read.
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