Wow, this was a disappointment. :|The first part about the Marvel family was AMAZING! I loved it and at that time my rating was still 5 stars. But then that part ended and we got to the part of Joseph. Which was all in text. Which is not a problem if only it wasn't so dull, boring, bland, and oh hey...
There is such a good book. There are two stories going on at once; One is written through pictures, the other through words. It bounces between the two. In one story, the one conveyed through words, we have a boy trying to figure out where he belongs after the death of his mother. In the beginni...
The Marvels was not as good as Brian Selznick's other books. The first three quarters of this book was pictures, with the last quarter being text, and, though it took me a while to figure out what was going on in the picture story, I became quite invested in it. Then I got to the text portion. The c...
This is a cute quick read for upper grades. Nick Allen has always had a creative side and then he lands in Mrs. Granger's 5th grade class. Mrs. Granger is all about vocabulary and it leaves Nick wondering, who makes a word, a word? So Nick decides to invent a word "Frindle" which Nick says is anothe...
Brian Selznick is one of my favorite artists/writers of all time. This is his third book I've read by him, the first two being The Invention of Hugo Cabret and WonderStruck, and it will not be my last. I will follow this man's work for as long as he continues to create art. I adore his way of story-...
As with Selznick's earlier books, 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret' and 'Wonderstruck', this book delivers stunning pencil drawings in exquisite detail to tell the story. It takes a particular kind of author cum illustrator to accurately and succinctly convey in pictures, what would take paragraphs to ...
AHHHHH!!! < -- me after learning Brian Selznick has a new book out and me after reading Brian Selznick's new bookThe Marvels fits right in with The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck. It's full of mystery, interesting characters, complex story lines. The format of The Marvels is slightly diff...
Did you ever question why something is called what it is? Nick here does. He decides a pen is not a pen, but a Frindle. Apparently, everyone likes the idea and it catches quick. Unrealistically quick, but this is a middle grade book so taking that in stride.I loved his teacher Mrs. Granger. She l...
In The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Selznick created one story in two media, prose and art. In Wonderstruck he does the same thing, but this time there are two concurrent stories taking place. Instead of alternating the story between one medium and another, he tells one story with art and one story w...
I received a copy from Netgalley. I'm not a fan of classics, but I do love retellings, especially of stories I know well, and while a 'Christmas Carol' has been retold to death, a YA retellings with a Valentine twist was something I really wanted to read. Unfortunately, I didn't really like it tha...
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