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the inventions of Brian Selznick

9 February 2012 by Kortney

around our house we have a girl named Isabelle wearing a dark blue beret and a boy named Hugo who has made his stuffed bear into an automaton named Tomtom.  the mechanical man drew this picture.  does it look familiar?  it’s the man in the moon with a rocket in his eye from the film A Trip to the Moon by Georges Melies.

we have been enjoying the work of Brian Selznick.  his novels, Wonderstuck and The Invention of Hugo Cabret are a wonderfully strange mix of story and image–not a picture book, and yet not simply a chapter book either.  i think a middle grades reader would love to read these big books on their own, and we’ve had a great time reading them aloud.

just now you can also enjoy Hugo’s story as a 3D movie!  Andy and i had so much fun catching snowflakes and dodging trains in our theater seats!  exactly what movies should be.

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  1. happy birthday, Nicolas « one deep drawer says:
    24 April 2012 at 4:01 pm

    […] three Nicolas loves hot dogs and Richard Scarry and Hugo Cabret and cars and balls and mud and pretend play and kitties and walks in the neighborhood and using the […]

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    25 April 2012 at 4:18 pm

    […] amazing poems–”Birches” by Frost, a couple of Christina Rossetti poems (good for the Hugo fans among us!), and this wonder by Nicki […]

  3. how we celebrate « one deep drawer says:
    4 May 2012 at 6:24 pm

    […] cream “hidden inside the cake like Hugo hidden in the […]

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