Hugo Cabret is an orphan. He lives, or survives, in a Paris railway station. Hugo is obsessed with an automaton, a machine that looks like a man but is made entirely of clockwork parts, like the clocks Hugo winds at the railway station. Machines and the invention of film play a big part in this book. It’s a mystery, a puzzle, and feast for the eyes.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick is not like any book you have read before. It’s a graphic novel, a picture book, it’s a mystery that uses real events as part of the story.

When you see it you think, my god, that’s the like a phone book – two phone books – but when you turn the pages you are on the way to another time and another place. If you can lift it, I guarantee you won’t want to put it down!

For more Hugo Cabret, explore the website, or pester your librarian. They like it when you pester them!

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