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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Tagging/Indexing/Cataloging - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick was published in 2007. It won a Caldecott Medal and was a National Book Award finalist. Selznick describes the book as "not exactly a novel, not quite a picture book, not really a graphic novel, or a flip book or a movie, but a combination of all these things." Although the main character is a young boy (Hugo Cabret), the story involves the silent filmmaker Georges Melies. The story is told through pages of textless illustrations (in a beautiful black and white art style that perfectly complements the subject matter) and pages of traditional text. The illustrations do not merely mirror the text, they actually move the story forward. Attention to both the illustrations and the text is necessary to follow the unfolding story.
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