The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Hello all and welcome to Beantown, where I’ll be reviewing The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

This is a good book with beautiful hand-drawn images, and we’re very lucky to have a signed copy right here in our school library.  

The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a work of historical fiction, based on the real-life French filmmaker Georges Méliès. The book's divided into two parts, including an epilogue.  It’s written and illustrated by Brian Selznick, (an American) and won the 2008 Caldecott Medal.

The plot goes something like this:

Somewhere in Paris, in the 1930s, Hugo and his dad find an old automaton at the museum where the father works.  They decide to fix it, however, Hugo’s father is killed in a fire in the museum where he works, so his uncle takes him into a train station to teach him to fix clocks.  Hugo’s uncle soon vanishes, but Hugo keeps the clocks running and survives on baked goods left out by the people at the station. Hugo leaves the station, and discovers...

If I go any further, I’ll be telling too much.

Go read it yourself!

5/5 hats.