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I loved this book! I really enjoyed how it was told both in text and with pictures. I really loved the pictures they were drawn wonderfully and had a lot of detail in them! The book was a quick read but it was a book that I couldn't put down. The pictures and text went well together. The story wouldn't have been the same with out both of them. The pictures furthered the story along and to me made the story even more enjoyable. With mixing words and pictures I thought that it really struck up the
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret- Brian Selznick
Audio performance by Jeff Woodman
4 stars
Wouldn’t you know, the first time I read something that could be tagged a graphic novel, I listened to it first. So this review is in two parts, first the hard copy and then the audio.
Hugo Cabret is an orphan living in the walls of a Paris train station during the time between the world wars. The location and its historical setting alone would make this an unusual book for its target audience of early adolesce ...more
Audio performance by Jeff Woodman
4 stars
Wouldn’t you know, the first time I read something that could be tagged a graphic novel, I listened to it first. So this review is in two parts, first the hard copy and then the audio.
Hugo Cabret is an orphan living in the walls of a Paris train station during the time between the world wars. The location and its historical setting alone would make this an unusual book for its target audience of early adolesce ...more
A boy in Paris living in a train station trying to uncover a mystery. The mystery starts with an automaton left behind when his father dies. The written story mixed with beautiful illustrations works very well.
A marvelous YA book about an orphaned boy in early 20th century France who fixes clocks, an eccentric, angry old man who works at a toy booth in a Paris train station ,his orphaned ward who helps him in the store and how their paths converge and change each others lives.
Although the story is fiction, the character of the old man was a real person, a famous pioneer in French silent movies whose images have become iconoclastic. All the characters share the wonder of invention and the pain of loss ...more
Although the story is fiction, the character of the old man was a real person, a famous pioneer in French silent movies whose images have become iconoclastic. All the characters share the wonder of invention and the pain of loss ...more
It is an interesting idea, but in the end I'd much prefer just a regular graphic novel. The illustrated parts are great, I love the pencils, but the writing is very simplistic, very much "He looked at her. She looked back. They both laughed" which might be helpful for kids who are below their reading level. I enjoyed it, and think it's great for specific people, and liked the plot, but I'm not raving about it.
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This is a children's book but there's enough here for adults to enjoy. It uses pictures along with words to tell the story of an orphan boy living in a Paris train station in 1931.
It's over 500 pages but don't let that fool you. There are so many pictures that you can make very quick progress.
I didn't find the story all that fascinating but the book itself is worth a look. ...more
It's over 500 pages but don't let that fool you. There are so many pictures that you can make very quick progress.
I didn't find the story all that fascinating but the book itself is worth a look. ...more
I love this book for being so different. It's unlike anything I've ever seen. I love the combination of hand drawn illustrations & photographs. It's a thick book, but many pages only contain illustrations. I read this in between other books. It was a quick read. It was the perfect book to pick up on a rainy afternoon.
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So far I love the pictures in this huge book! I like the story too. I want to see what will happen next to this orphaned boy with his clock-like machine.
OH! I'm finished, and it was wonderful. Based on a true to life film maker, Georges Melies. ...more
OH! I'm finished, and it was wonderful. Based on a true to life film maker, Georges Melies. ...more
This was enthralling. Half graphic, half novel-- Hugo Cabret is a suspenseful mystery made magical by mechanical automatons, monstrous clocks, and old reels of forgotten film. A great introduction to the graphic novel for all ages.
I had no idea that there was real world influence on the book, I picked it up because of the illustrations. A happy/sad, sweet tale that kept me from putting it down until I was finished.
I'd give it four and a half, but Goodreads doesn't do that, so I'm rounding up. This book was crazy cool, mysterious, and beautiful.
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Feb 11, 2008
Juliezs
marked it as to-read
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akaellen
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Andrea
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