The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a success. It is a delightful book. It successfully invokes the experience of watching a film in the midst of a novella. A bit surprising how successful it is, because it invokes film without at all being a graphic novel. The story is pretty simple and, like a movie, easy to predict where things will go. The intermixing of images and text effectively shift the story from the words to images. Even though the images fill a page each, they do not create the sense of mixing in a graphic novel. It does not take long to read, length of the volume notwithstanding.
I may be outside the targeted age range for the book -- which won a Caldecott -- but it is still a good book to read on a summer afternoon.
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