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Love the illustrations and how they help to tell the story. My 10 yr old took this book out of her school's library and I was instantly intrigued by it tot he point I had to buy a copy of it right away. It is not your average picture book. Though 556 pages, I read it over about 3 or 4 hours. Just a beautiful book. Just such a great story that is so vividly told by Mr. Selznick in both word and pictures.I'm thrilled to hear that "Martin Scorsese bought the screen rights to the book in 2007, John Logan wrote the script, and talks are being held with both Sony and Paramount to take on the distribution rights.Chris Wedge was going to direct the film for Warner Bros with Johnny Depp's production house Infinitum Nihil."I very much look forward to seeing this wonderful book brought to the big screen.
It might be easier to say what this book lacks: it lacks negativity. This is a story of intrigue and heartfelt feelings, with no hidden meanings or implications. It is a story of struggle, the instinct to survive while maintaining one's humanity. It is filled with incidences of characters choosing to act with integrity, kindness and strength. Hugo's need to steal provides opportunity time and again to see that he would not do so if he had the choice. Highly recommended. [.].
Hugo is making an automaton. The boy, Hugo, spends his life taking care of the clocks the way his uncle taught him and building an automaton with the help of his dead father's notebook. She shows she is brave by helping Hugo get his notebook back from the toy seller.Is that enough. Hugo must find out what the automaton says, but his adventure gets very hard to handle.Would you like to meet the characters.
I'll tell you more.The toy seller, (A.K.A. OK. Hugo is a young boy of twelve who is very skilled in mechanics. In The Invention of Hugo Cabret an orphaned twelve-year-old boy lives in the walls of a Paris train station clock tower. He used to be a famous movie maker, but he had to quit because his movies wouldn't sell after awhile.In my opinion the end was the best part of the story, but I won't spoil it for you. She is the toy seller's goddaughter.
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You will have to read that on your own. An automaton is a robot like machine that can move or write.
Papa Georges) is a grumpy old man who works at a toy booth. His father died in a fire and his uncle disappeared one night a couple of years ago.
Hugo is stuck in a clock tower taking care of the clocks.Isabelle is a little girl Hugo meets, who is about his age. He is the godfather of Isabelle.
I will give you a hint about what happens, Hugo's life gets better and the story ends happily.I would recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure, mystery, and pictures.
His talent is inventing things such as a wind up mouse. On his birthday his dad takes him to the movies. He faces many questions in his life but this is the biggest one. The only thing is the picture wasn't by Hugo's father.
Hugo has a great talent for inventing. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznik is about a boy named Hugo that goes on an incredible journey to find out what a drawing from his dad's machine means. Another important person in this story is George Melies. I think this book was great because it is a mystery , and an action book , and those are my favorite books. Hugo's father is always talking about this movie he saw when he was a kid.
George is an old man that used to be a little bit of a celebrity.My favorite part is when Hugo's father's machine is fixed and draws the picture Hugo has been waiting for. This book is a cliff hanger , I could hardly put it down. The story begins in a train station a small boy named Hugo lives with his father. So then Hugo , and a girl he met set out to find the answers to his questions. Hugo a young boy has set out to find the parts for a machine.
Hugo is a boy with great talent. The girl he met was hiding the answer from Hugo, and it ends out different then he thought it would be.I would recommend this book to anyone that likes action books because this author's point is to get you to read more. That is my opinion of this book.
Hugo Cabret is a 12 year old boy who takes care of clocks. As much as I wanted to find out more of the story I found myself wanting to just linger over each picture - and now that I know the story I plan on going back to just do that. There are really no words to describe how much I loved this book. What makes this book so brilliant is the old adage a picture is worth a thousand words. It's hard on the hands - I ended up having to read it with it lying on a table in front of me. He comes from a family skilled in the upkeep of clocks. The illustrations are beautiful.
With all those illustrations comes a price. The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a perfect blend of a short story, illustrations and film pictures. Beware though. And he has a story to tell. Instead of describing with written word the movement of the characters and the setting of each scene we get to see it all and follow Hugo through his story. This is a very thick novel. Don't be scared by the size though, for all its bulk it really is a short story, but a very satisfying one
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