Hugo Cabret

I recently read The Invention of Hugo Cabret.  I could not put it down.  I wanted to know what happened to this young boy living on his own in hiding.  I had not seen the movie, which was released last year, so I knew nothing about the storyline.  Brian Selznick definitely draws you into the story with his awesome drawings.  He won the Caldecott Medal in 2008 for the drawings, which are exquisite, but so is the story.  I really enjoyed piecing all of the parts of the story together, much the way Hugo pieced the automaton together.  The added film history was just a bonus to the story.