What a Novel Idea - a Novel with Graphics
Yet not a graphic novel. Instead it is full-page pictures alternating with sections of prose. The black-and-white illustrations are almost cinematic in their sequencing as they zoom in and out of the various scenes they depict. Movies and art both play an important role in this story, as do magicians (the mundane kind), toys, clocks, and automatons. They all intersect wondrously to tell the story of Hugo, a young orphan living in a 1931 train station in Paris. The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick. Check it out.
posted by Degolar @ 2:41 PM
3 Comments:
Not really a novel idea, now is it? Illustrations were quite common in novels of the 19th Century.
So my attempt at wordplay didn't work the best. Still, it's a pretty unique book--not just an illustrated story, because there are large portions of the book where the illustrations are the story.
I've seen it. It's nearly half and half, and not like a picture book, either.
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