“We are all cabinets of wonders.” I cannot put into words what a work of art this book is. This story is told in two halves, Ben in words and Rose in illustrations. Both stories are told at the same time, with both children going on a similar journey at the same time which defiantly helps with the...
Wonder struck is very good book but i can get confusing at times but the base story is wonderful their are 2 stories unfolding before you side by side. The 2 main characters are Rose which is told in pictures, and Ben which is told in words.Both of them have something missing in their life and they ...
I was totally charmed by Wonderstruck because I went into it totally blind as to what it contained. I had a clue from the bolt of lightning on the front cover but even that was just a tiny portion of this stellar novel. The reader follows a boy on a journey from his small town into the bustling metr...
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...
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 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...
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