The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
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Book Reviews of The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Book Review: Sellznick has created a stunning cinematic tour de force to honor one of the greatest pioneers in movie making: George Melies.
Summary: 5 Stars
Hugo Cabret lived in the walls of a busy Paris train station. His father had worked at a clock shop ahad taught Hugo how to fix clocks. He had found a machine that resembled a man. Hugo and his father had been fixing it until one day, Hugo's father was locked inside the museum where the machine was kept and was killed by a fire.
Hugo's uncle had worked in the Paris station fixing the clocks and took Hugo to live with him. Hugo learned how to take care of the clocks. Hugo's uncle died and Hugo had managed to keep the clocks working and he stole food to survive. He found the old machine that he and his father were working on along with his father notebook on how to fix it and he started working on it.
Hugo believed that the machine, which he called automation, would save his life. Hugo's world interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl, Isabelle and her grandfather, George Melies; a biter old man who runs a toy booth in the train station. Hugo's undercover life and his most precious secret--the automation--are put in jeopardy.
After fixing the automation, the machine creates a cryptic drawing which reveals a secret message from his dead father. Aided by Isabelle, and Etienne, a film student, they discover the true identity of George Melies and his connection to films: a way to make dreams come true.
With 284 pages of original drawings, and combining elements of picture book, graphic novel, and film, Brian Sellznick breaks open the novel form to create an entirely new reading experience. Sellznick has created a stunning cinematic tour de force to honor one of the greatest pioneers in movie making: George Melies.
Book Review: A Masterpiece!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Inventions of Hugo Cabret
By Brian Selznick
A Masterpiece!
This book is a masterpiece of art and words.
It has been a long time since a book has touched me like this one.
I usually read until I fall asleep. This book kept me awake, until I finished.
Hugo Cabret is a twelve-years-old boy, with the whole world on his shoulders. He has no parents, no school, no money, no friends but he does have huge dreams. He works hard to keep all the clocks running in the Paris train station. This is a big and important job, for a boy. The clocks keep the whole city of Paris running as it should. This story is woven with the loss of Hugo's father, and the lives of a toy maker, and his goddaughter. It also tells of Hugo's determination to save a magical machine that may contain a secret message from his father.
If you pick up a book with 540 pages, it can seem a little overwhelming. When you see that half of the pages are filled with cleaver, detailed drawings, the book becomes much more fascinating. The details in Brian Selznick's book are so clever. The pictures make the story run as it should; telling Hugo Cabret's story in a way that mere words could not achieve.
I am even more fascinated with Hugo and his clocks, because my father and grandfather were watchmakers. I used to watch my father take apart a watch or clock, fix and clean it and put it back together with his intricate parts and small tools.
I think adults and children of all ages will love this book.
Jill Ammon Vanderwood, Author
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Book Review: THEBEASTSQUAD
Summary: 5 Stars
The invention of Hugo Carbret is a story about a little boy named Hugo Carbret who lives with his dad and one day his dad found a mechanical man and always worked on it everyday he went to work. One day he took Hugo to work with him and showed him the man. The next week the building caught on fire and Hugo's dad died but when Hugo went to see if his dad got out, but he didn't because the door was locked and he couldn't get out because he didn't smell any smoke or fire. Hugo walked up to the ashes and found the auto man.... I loved this book I read t was the most exciting book I have ever read.
Hugo Carbret is an orphan who has discovered an auto man in his father's attic were he works. Hugo steals little toys from Georges toy shop he bought when he sold all of his art work. Hugo got caught stealing toys from the shop and Georges started to scream for the Station inspector, but he wasn't around. Hugo runs back into the vent and up to the clock shop. Hugo discovers that Melies was a famous magician and the auto man was his trick that left his audience speechless.
The Story of Hugo Carbret doesn't seem similar to any other books I've read. There are four strengths.1 of the strengths is it has pictures the second is it ahs great detail. The third strength is it really expresses the feeling of the author. The final strength is it shows that picture and word books can be fun.
The audience for Hugo Carbret I am reading is for kids with huge imaginations and dreams. The genre of my book is mystery. Also the audience is the ages between 10-13.
Book Review: A Book Review
Summary: 5 Stars
In The Invention of Hugo Cabret an orphaned twelve-year-old boy lives in the walls of a Paris train station clock tower. 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. An automaton is a robot like machine that can move or write. Hugo must find out what the automaton says, but his adventure gets very hard to handle.
Would you like to meet the characters. OK!
Hugo is a young boy of twelve who is very skilled in mechanics. Hugo is making an automaton. 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. She is the toy seller's goddaughter. She shows she is brave by helping Hugo get his notebook back from the toy seller.
Is that enough? No? Oh all right. I'll tell you more.
The toy seller, (A.K.A. Papa Georges) is a grumpy old man who works at a toy booth. He is the godfather of Isabelle. 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. You will have to read that on your own. 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.
Book Review: A good novel with great pictures.
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is about a boy who lives in a station in Paris. He fixes clocks and works with machinery. He has to bear the weight of his drunk, absent uncle from whom Hugo took the responsibility of keeping the clocks of the station working. His father had found an automaton, which is a machine that can move and perform abilities, but all through the machinery of a clock. This particular automaton is of a man at a desk, posed as if to write something. This story is about the boy trying to find what the automaton of a man is writing when he is fixed.
I loved the illustrations in the book. What is interesting about this book is it is not written like a traditional graphic novel, but it has writing on a few pages, then the next few pages will be illustrations of the next part of the book. The author does not illustrate what he had explained in words, but what happens next. The pictures continue the story where the words leave off. The pictures tell their own part of the story. It is such a creative style of writing and illustrating. The author weaves such an interesting story, but it is his illustrations that make this novel so fascinating and compelling. The illustrations are drawn in a kid- friendly way, but they still contain depth and it looks to me that the author took a lot of time for just one of them. It only took about an hour or two to read, but it was exciting until the very end. The book has 550 pages, but 284 of the pages are pictures. The plot is a combination of mysteries and secrets that all want to be solved.