CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 2008
by Brian Selznick
New York: Scholastic Press, 2007
533 pp.
Ages: 8 +
Interests: mystery, Paris,history, clocks, magicians, automata (robots), silent movie history, stories about orphans, inventors
Also by this author: Wonderstruck, The Houdini Box, The Robot King, Boy of a Thousand Faces
Next: silent movies by Georges Méliès; official website of the book; movie adaptation Hugo (2011)