finely detailed pencil drawings — unaccompanied by text — fill more than half the book's 500-plus pages. Selznick, a well-known illustrator, has employed an experimental form in Hugo Cabret ...

Without Hugo Cabret, none of the clocks in the magnificent Paris train station he lives in would work. Though he’s only a kid, Hugo tends to the clocks every day. But there’s something … ...

That what eventually springs from the pen of the automaton is not text but an iconic image is fitting, since in Hugo Cabret, pages of workmanlike prose serve only to propel the plot forward.

What “Hugo Cabret” did for early French cinema ... In “Wonderstruck,” Ben’s entire story is told in text, while Rose’s story is entirely done with pictures. I wanted the pictures ...

Hugo is one of the rare adaptations that takes a longer time to watch than it does to read the novel it's based on. Brian Selznick's beloved middle-grade book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, might ...

If you haven’t read his intriguing 533 page book The Invention of Hugo Cabret with your kids, rush to do so. ... One story takes place in 1977 and is told in text, ...

The surprise winner of the Caldecott Medal for distinguished picture book was Brian Selznick's 533-page The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic), an unconventional blend of black and white ...

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Plenty of writers have been afforded virtually that experience as their books have been adapted to film, but perhaps no one has realized this dream so intensely as Brian Selznick when he visited ...

I knew Johnny Depp was a producer on Martin Scorsese's 3D kids film Hugo Cabret but I had no idea he would be making an appearance. I have no idea how large his role as 'M. Rouleau' is, it might ...

What “Hugo Cabret” did for early French cinema ... In “Wonderstruck,” Ben’s entire story is told in text, while Rose’s story is entirely done with pictures. I wanted the pictures ...

In The Invention of Hugo Cabret, author and illustrator Brian Selznick uses a striking combination of text and drawings to tell the story of Hugo, an… ...