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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ik ben erg onder de indruk van dit boek, niet zozeer vanwege het verhaal zelf, maar vanwege de illustraties. Deze ondersteunen het verhaal niet, maar dragen het. Heel mooi, zoals de auteur het verhaal in tekst verder laat gaan, daar waar de gedetailleerde tekeningen ophouden en andersom. Ik vind De uitvinding van Hugo Cabret een prachtig vormgegeven boek en zal zeker nog meerdere malen uit de kast gehaald worden om in te kijken. (  ) Carolien70 | Dec 21, 2009 |  Even though this book is chock full of coincidences and plot lines you can see coming from a mile away, I was completely drawn in by the amazing artwork. I loved the black/white drawings--such detail. It was great. (  ) mmillet | Dec 14, 2009 | Plot Synopsis Hugo Cabret, apprentice clockmaker, sometimes thief, machinist, and wannabe magician, has an obsession. An automata, found broken in a museum attic, may hold the answers to his universe, but first Hugo has to fix it. His obsession leads him to Georges Melies, the magician of early film. My Thoughts I have never experienced a book like this before. It is not an illustrated book: the images do not accompany the story; they help tell the story. It is not a graphic novel: the text and images are separated from each other. What it actually is, I do not know, but I would like to see more of it in children's literature. The images are a mix of pencil drawings of the story's characters and events and screenshots from Melies' films. The artwork is intricate even as it is simple, and I was continually impressed by the detail offered. The choice of what to visually represent was both appropriate and unique. Being a film instructor, I loved the inclusion of Melies, and the mention of other early film bigwigs such as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Jean Renoir. This book could be a wonderful jumping off point for kids to explore the world of film outside of contemporary blockbusters. It could spark or renew in them the connection between the big screen and the world of dreams. I'm even considering adding this book to my film course. I read the book in a little over two hours one evening, and I very much enjoyed the experience. It was unique, entertaining, and informative. Overall, I think the combination of images and text makes this a wonderful book for a young reader - or an imaginative older one. Memorable Scene: One series of images represents the drawings of Melies that Hugo and Isabelle find locked away. Light-exploding heads, fantastical beasts, mermaids, men popping out of ringed planets, knights riding fish, butterfly women, and flames grace the pages in a beautiful menagerie of dream scenes. Memorable Quote: If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made. ~said to a young boy in a film studio (  )1  EclecticEccentric | Dec 13, 2009 | I read a Spanish translation of this book, and loved it. The amazing amount of art creates the possisbility of reading this book in two different ways. You can skim quickly through it, creating a movie like feel, or you can slow down and read the pictures. 1 iclairei | Dec 6, 2009 | This was a fantastic book with gorgeous illustrations. It is a great book for any young person to read, as it is both enlightening and entertaining. 1 annied1 | Dec 6, 2009 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Amazon.com (ISBN 0439813786, Hardcover)Book Description:Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery. Amazon.com Exclusive A Letter from Brian Selznick When I was a kid, two of my favorite books were by an amazing man named Remy Charlip. Fortunately and Thirteen fascinated me in part because, in both books, the very act of turning the pages plays a pivotal role in telling the story. Each turn reveals something new in a way that builds on the image on the previous page. Now that I’m an illustrator myself, I’ve often thought about this dramatic storytelling device and all of its creative possibilities. My new book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, is a 550 page novel in words and pictures. But unlike most novels, the images in my new book don't just illustrate the story; they help tell it. I've used the lessons I learned from Remy Charlip and other masters of the picture book to create something that is not a exactly a novel, not quite a picture book, not really a graphic novel, or a flip book or a movie, but a combination of all these things. I began thinking about this book ten years ago after seeing some of the magical films of Georges Méliès, the father of science-fiction movies. But it wasn’t until I read a book called Edison's Eve: The Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Woods that my story began to come into focus. I discovered that Méliès had a collection of mechanical, wind-up figures (called automata) that were donated to a museum, but which were later destroyed and thrown away. Instantly, I imagined a boy discovering these broken, rusty machines in the garbage, stealing one and attempting to fix it. At that moment, Hugo Cabret was born. A few years ago, I had the honor of meeting Remy Charlip, and I'm proud to say that we've become friends. Last December he was asking me what I was working on, and as I was describing this book to him, I realized that Remy looks exactly like Georges Méliès. I excitedly asked him to pose as the character in my book, and fortunately, he said yes. So every time you see Méliès in The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the person you are really looking at is my dear friend Remy Charlip, who continues to inspire everyone who has the great pleasure of knowing him or seeing his work. Paris in the 1930's, a thief, a broken machine, a strange girl, a mean old man, and the secrets that tie them all together... Welcome to The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Yours, Brian Selznick Amazon.com Exclusive
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Dear readers, 
Brian Selznick on a "Deleted Scene" from The Invention of Hugo CabretThis is a finished drawing that I had to cut from The Invention of Hugo Cabret. I was still rewriting the book when I had to begin the final art. There was originally a scene in the story where this character, Etienne, is working in a camera shop. On one of my research trips to Paris I spent an entire day visiting old camera shops and photographing cameras from the 1930's and earlier, as well as the facades of the shops themselves. I researched original French camera posters and made sure that the counter and the shelves were accurate to the time period. I did all the drawings in the book at 1/4 scale, so they were very small and I often had to use a magnifying glass to help me see what I was drawing. After I finished this drawing I continued to rewrite, and for various reasons I realized that I needed to move this scene from the camera shop to the French Film Academy, which meant that I had to cut this picture. I tried really hard to find ANOTHER moment when I could have Etienne in a camera shop, but, as painful as it was, I knew the picture had to go. I'm glad to see it up on the Amazon website because otherwise no one would have ever seen all those tiny cameras I researched and drew so carefully! 
