Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2009
Journal / Book Title
Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children
Abstract
The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a demanding book, initiating the reader into a specific time and place, Paris in 1931, and into a set of unfamiliar ideas and metaphors. The young reader must learn his way around this world, and believe in it. I imagine a young child encountering this book, following its trail of pictures, making up a story, and then running up against a page of beautifully printed prose. The child will naturally ask, “What do these strange marks mean? How are they going to help me understand this story?” That question is an entry point into the world of reading. Readers will keep asking it, all the rest of their lives.
Book Publisher
Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Shea, Peter, "(2009) The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures (2007) by Brian Selznick" (2009). Collected Papers of Peter Shea. 6.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_pshea/6