The Invention of Hugo Cabret - The Best Book I Have Read This Year

 There will be a special space in my library reserved for this book.  

550 pages and more than half are stunning illustrations like these.  

I could not put the book down. 

 This is the first time in a long time when I can say time really stood still while I read.  I was lost in the story.

I will read it again because I read and looked very quickly wanting desperately to know how it ends.  The book has already been turned into a movie that will be released this fall.  

I am so glad my husband found this book for me!  I stayed up way too late but it was worth it!

 From the author Brian Selznick:  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.

Here is a link to the Amazon listing.