"I had this idea to try to tell two different stories," he says. In Wonderstruck, Selznick wanted to take this narrative experiment a step further. ( Click here to see that opening sequence of drawings.) In the beginning of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the reader follows a boy through a grate in the wall, down a hallway, to an old man in a toy booth who sees a clock, and behind the number 5 in the clock, there's the boy. Selznick's illustrations work like a camera, zooming in on details and following his characters around as they move through the world. Wonderstruck is such a beautiful story that one can suspend disbelief with minor issues. Based on Brian Selznicks award-winning 2011 book, Wonderstruck chronicles the adventures of two 12-year-old characters 50 years apart. Ben and Rose secretly wish for better lives. Read 7,049 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. "I thought: Is there a way of combining what the cinema can do with panning, and zooming in and out, and edits, and what a picture book can do with page turns, and what a novel does?" Selznick says. Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick Wonderstruck book. Wonderstruck is both a novel and a picture book, a form Selznick first experimented with in The Invention of Hugo Cabret, when he had the idea of telling a story in much the same way that film does. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Wonderstruck Author Brian Selznick
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