A stunning gift book to be treasured for a lifetime. With over 460 pages of original artwork Wonderstruck is a stunning achievement from a gifted artist and visionary. How they unfold and ultimately intertwine will surprise you, challenge you, and leave you breathless with wonder. He places the things he collects in a wooden box with a wolf on the cover. Set fifty years apart, these two independent stories Ben's told in words, Rose's in pictures-weave back and forth with mesmerizing symmetry. With this brilliantly constructed novel, told alternately in prose and visual. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are missing. Caldecott Medalist and bookmaking pioneer Brian Selznick sails into. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. Ever since his mother died, Ben feels lost. In this groundbreaking tour de force, Caldecott Medalist and bookmaking pioneer Brian Selznick sails into uncharted territory and takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey. Rich, complex, affecting and beautiful, Wonderstruck is a staggering achievement from a uniquely gifted artist. When Ben finds a mysterious clue hidden in his mother's room, both children risk everything to find what's missing.

At home with her father, Rose feels alone. Rose's story in 1927 is told entirely in pictures. Ben's story takes place in 1977 and is told in words. 'I had this idea to try to tell two different stories,' he says.Description for Wonderstruck Hardcover. In Wonderstruck, Selznick wanted to take this narrative experiment a step further. ( Click here to see that opening sequence of drawings.) In the beginning of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the reader follows a boy through a grate in the wall, down a hallway, to an old man in a toy booth who sees a clock, and behind the number 5 in the clock, there's the boy. Selznick's illustrations work like a camera, zooming in on details and following his characters around as they move through the world. 'I thought: Is there a way of combining what the cinema can do with panning, and zooming in and out, and edits, and what a picture book can do with page turns, and what a novel does?' Selznick says. Wonderstruck is both a novel and a picture book, a form Selznick first experimented with in The Invention of Hugo Cabret, when he had the idea of telling a story in much the same way that film does. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Wonderstruck Author Brian Selznick

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