when you hear about a book of half-minute horrors for children, you kinda just shrug your shoulders and decide that you'll read it as a quick, easy filler in between books, right? but here's the thing: you're wrong. this book was absolutely not a buffer. it was actually creepy - and i say this as so...
I first read 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret' when my kids were younger, and loved the way the author told the story in pencil drawings that took up entire and several pages throughout the book, interspersing them with worded pages. Then I found out that 'Wonderstruck' followed the same concept, but h...
Gosh, that Brian Selznick is a clever dude. I felt that Hugo Cabret worked so well because (a) it was totally new and unique and (b) its storyline (silent films/mystery) worked perfectly with the medium. And so I wondered if he could really pull it off a second time. Well, pull it off he did and,...
I've been struggling to shelf this book, as I usually try to do so by genre or what made the book special. But how do you even start to describe a book that part novel and part graphic novel? I've shelved it for now with the graphic novels, in the hope I'll one day find a better solution, because th...
by Brian Selznick I don't know that I enjoyed the integration of pictures and words as much as I did in The Invention of Hugo Cabret, but Wonderstruck is a magnificent book anyway. I love stories with two parallel plots and Selznick does a good job intertwining them. The beginning is a little ...
One book narrates, in pictures and words, two stories set fifty years apart. Rose’s story is wonderfully told by Selznick’s black and white pencil illustrations. What amazed me the most was how Rose’s eyes did most of the storytelling; you could tell that she felt abandoned, and unloved. As the st...
This book was one of the best I have ever read. Sometimes a story can transport you like none other, and this one certainly did that. Wonderstruck takes place in the 1970s, where the main character, Ben, is plagued with life's mishaps that keep piling up. But these don't defeat our hero, and he find...
I actually prefer this one to [b:The Invention of Hugo Cabret|9673436|The Invention of Hugo Cabret|Brian Selznick|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327879761s/9673436.jpg|527941]. The characters in this one are much more sympathetic. The interweaving of the 1977 story in text and the 1927 story in pic...
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