Brian Selznick and Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick is receiving extensive media attention after receiving the Caldecott Medal for The Invention of Hugo Cabret. This interview in the New York Times gives some background to the writing of the work, and the film influences that permeate it.
We reviewed this title in Fiction Focus, Issue 2, 2007 and pointed to the accompanying website which includes a screening of the world’s first science fiction movie, A Trip to the Moon, made in 1909 by Georges Méliès. Take a look - it enriches the whole Cabret experience.
January 29th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
The invention of Hugo Cabret is a gift of a book. My youngest son is not much of a fiction reader but he loved it. He is eleven and a great reader but prefers non fiction and other kinds of reading - facts, comics, websites. He said that he liked how the action started straight away with none of the usual waffle and background that he finds boring - he felt he was tipped right into the world instantly. He also loved the illustrations and the feeling that he had read many pages with little effort very quickly. A result of the large number of illustrations and the fast pace of the book. A great find for the right reader, I think, that needs to be promoted more widely. Perhaps its new award winning status will help it along.