The Marvels
Publishers Weekly ¡ï 07/06/2015 Selznick imagines an alternate backstory for a real English tourist attraction, the Dennis Severs¡¯ House: 10 meticulously curated rooms that suggest what life might have been like for a family of Huguenot silk weavers in 18th-century London. The first 500 pages are double-page pencil drawings that (almost) wordlessly tell the story […]
Wonderstruck
Added to the Lisbon Public Library by Christine Trudell in memory of Mike Trudell. Publishers Weekly: Selznick follows his Caldecott-winning The Invention of Hugo Cabret with another illustrated novel that should cement his reputation as one of the most innovative storytellers at work today. Ben and Rose are both hearing-impaired. He is 12 in 1977; […]
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Publishers Weekly: Here is a true masterpiece?an artful blending of narrative, illustration and cinematic technique, for a story as tantalizing as it is touching.Twelve-year-old orphan Hugo lives in the walls of a Paris train station at the turn of the 20th century, where he tends to the clocks and filches what he needs to survive. […]