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The Monster Librarian Presents:
Reviews of Something Different aka Unique Horror Related Fiction
Horror related or themed books that don’t quite fit into any other category.
The
Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
*New Review
Scholastic, 2007
ISBN: 0439813786
Available: New
Brian Selznick (The Boy With A
Thousand Faces) has once again produced a homage to early horror
movies. Fourteen year old Hugo Cabret winds the clocks of a busy Paris
train station in secrecy, hoping that nobody will notice the absence of
his uncle, the station's timekeeper. Successfully hiding his existence
from the station inspector, Hugo is attempting to repair a broken
automaton his clockmaker father discovered in a museum fire. When the
old man who runs the station's toy stall confiscates the notebook with
his plans, Hugo's attempts to recover it draw him into discoveries about
the old man's mysterious past, the creator of the automaton, and the
maker of the first horror movies. Using the conventions of early
French cinema, Brian Selznick tells much of the story visually, using
black and white pencil drawings, using only 26,000 words in 511 pages.
An astonishing and unique expression of the novel form, combining
elements of picture book, graphic novel, and film to create a new kind
of reading experience, The Invention of Hugo Cabret is an
atmospherically creepy story that no lover of early horror movies should
miss. Recommended for all libraries, for readers from upper elementary
to adult, and especially for reluctant readers and mystery lovers.
Contains: theft, references to the devil. Review by Francesca the
Librarian
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