The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick was a Christmas present. I'd never heard of it. It's a children's book that in terms of size could have served adequately as a doorstop for those wooden doors in medieval castles. I dreaded reading it. But I shouldn’t have. Last night I started it; I finished ten minutes ago.
The most amazing pen-and-ink drawings comprise at least sixty percent of the book. The rest is a narrative that involves orphans and clock repairing and a toy store and the history of the movies and how everything fits together. There's no bio of the author but by the end of the book I was wondering a whole lot about family lines and his last name.
At a minimum I recommend that sometime when you're in a library or bookstore, you find the book and take a look at the drawings. It's a book I'm definitely keeping.
