This week my review is of The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
Half sketches create a story in pictures too, relevant history. Real last-century French pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès collected mechanical robot-like automata, and, impoverished, worked at a toy booth in a Paris railway station. Here, orphan Hugo fixes his late father's automata, and meets Méliès through his god-daughter Isabelle.
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I absolutely love this book! (And not just because it's mostly pictures) This has a great story line behind it and is absolutely fantastic. This isn't like the Oz series by Baum where the stories seem kind of silly when you're older this book is still fantastic as an adult. The illustrations are gorgeous. There is an actual story that coincides with the actual history of that time period which is rare for a children's book. This 500+ page book really is just a short story because a good amount of the book is pictures. The ending was somewhat anti-climatic but this book is definitely magical and is just what ever adult and child is looking for in a children's book. I gave it 5 out of 5 stars.
Happy reading!
Mackenzie
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