Invention Of Hugo Cabret
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Annotation: Hugo, an orphaned clock keeper living in a Paris train station, finds his secret life jeopardized when he meets an old toyseller and his goddaughter.
Catalog Number:
#14355
Details
Publisher:
Scholastic Book Service
Copyright:
2007
Illustrator:
Selznick, Brian
Pages:
533 p.
Available:
Yes
ISBN:
0-439-81378-6
Dewey:
F
LCCN:
2006007119
Dimensions:
21 cm.
Binding Type:
Perma-Bound
Subject Heading:
Orphans. Fiction, Robots. Fiction, Railroad stations. Fiction, Paris (France). History. 1870-1940. Fiction, Melies, Georges,. 1861-1938. Fiction, France. History. 1870-1940, Third Republic. Fiction
Language:
english
Reviewing Agencies:
ALA Booklist, Caldecott Medal, Horn Book, School Library Journal Starred Review, Voice of Youth Advocates, Wilson's Children's Catalog, Wilson's Junior High Catalog
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Word Count:
25,083
Reading Level:
5.1
Interest Level:
4-7
Accelerated Reader:
reading level: 5.1
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points: 4.0
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quiz: 113692
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grade: MG
Reading Counts!:
reading level: 4.8
/
points:7.0
Lexile:
820
ALA Booklist
"Selznick?s ""novel in words and pictures,"" an intriguing mystery set in 1930s Paris about an orphan, a salvaged clockwork invention, and a celebrated filmmaker, resuscitates an anemic genre?the illustrated novel?and takes it to a whole new level. The result is somewhat similar to a graphic novel, but experiencing its mix of silvery pencil drawings and narrative interludes is ultimately more akin to watching a silent film. Indeed, movies and the wonder they inspire, ""like seeing dreams in the middle of the day,"" are central to the story, and Selznick expresses an obvious passion for cinema in ways both visual (successive pictures, set against black frames as if projected on a darkened screen, mimic slow zooms and dramatic cuts) and thematic (the convoluted plot involves director Georges Méliès, particularly his fanciful 1902 masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon.) This hybrid creation, which also includes movie stills and archival photographs, is surprising and often lovely, but the orphan?s story is overshadowed by the book?s artistic and historical concerns (the heady extent of which are revealed in concluding notes about Selznick?s inspirations, from the Lumière brothers to François Truffaut). Nonetheless, bookmaking this ambitious demands and deserves attention?which it will surely receive from children attracted by a novel in which a complex narrative is equally advanced by things both read and seen."
School Library Journal
Gr 4-9-With characteristic intelligence, exquisite images, and a breathtaking design, Selznick shatters conventions related to the art of bookmaking in this magical mystery set in 1930s Paris. He employs wordless sequential pictures and distinct pages of text to let the cinematic story unfold, and the artwork, rendered in pencil and bordered in black, contains elements of a flip book, a graphic novel, and film. It opens with a small square depicting a full moon centered on a black spread. As readers flip the pages, the image grows and the moon recedes. A boy on the run slips through a grate to take refuge inside the walls of a train station-home for this orphaned, apprentice clock keeper. As Hugo seeks to accomplish his mission, his life intersects with a cantankerous toyshop owner and a feisty girl who won't be ignored. Each character possesses secrets and something of great value to the other. With deft foreshadowi sensitively wrought characters, and heart-pounding suspense, the author engineers the elements of his complex plot: speeding trains, clocks, footsteps, dreams, and movies-especially those by Georges Melies, the French pioneer of science-fiction cinema. Movie stills are cleverly interspersed. Selznick's art ranges from evocative, shadowy spreads of Parisian streets to penetrating character close-ups. Leaving much to ponder about loss, time, family, and the creative impulse, the book closes with a waning moon, a diminishing square, and informative credits. This is a masterful narrative that readers can literally manipulate.-Wendy Lukehart, Washington DC Public Library Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
Horn Book
Over a sequence of twenty-one double-page wordless, illustrated spreads, a story begins. The tale that follows is a lively one, involving the dogged Hugo, his ally Isabelle, an automaton that can draw pictures, and a stage magician turned filmmaker. The interplay between the illustrations and text is complete genius, and themes of secrets, dreams, and invention play lightly but resonantly throughout.
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