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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
The combination of illustrations and text make this book a very fast and extremely enjoyable read. I love the history this book tells as well as the artistic aspect. Everyone should experience this book!
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I wish I could give this more than five stars. I felt very emotional reading it for some reason. Probably picturing if Hugo were my boy, how hard that would be. A boy with so much imagination and potential who is all alone in the world.
This book expertly (perfectly, wonderfully) blends drawings and text to create such a beautiful and touching story. This book was recommended by my sister for us to read with our four year old. He is getting to the age where he likes to be read to, yet his attention wavers easily. It sounded like it was worth a try.
My husband has been reading it to our four year old every night and our three year old daughter joins them (she loves it too). They talk about what's going on in the pictures and then listen intently to my husband as he reads the other parts. I love that they are using different creative parts of their brains and interacting with the book.
The story is so wonderful that I read ahead of everyone because I wanted (needed) to know what happened to Hugo Cabret. I think older kids could relate to this story. Not every child has a loving family or an easy life. It's a great book to read as a family.
Also, a few nights ago we saw that they are making a movie called Hugo, based on this book. I can't wait to finish the book with the kids and then be able to go watch the movie as a family and talk about how it was the same as and different than the novel.
This book expertly (perfectly, wonderfully) blends drawings and text to create such a beautiful and touching story. This book was recommended by my sister for us to read with our four year old. He is getting to the age where he likes to be read to, yet his attention wavers easily. It sounded like it was worth a try.
My husband has been reading it to our four year old every night and our three year old daughter joins them (she loves it too). They talk about what's going on in the pictures and then listen intently to my husband as he reads the other parts. I love that they are using different creative parts of their brains and interacting with the book.
The story is so wonderful that I read ahead of everyone because I wanted (needed) to know what happened to Hugo Cabret. I think older kids could relate to this story. Not every child has a loving family or an easy life. It's a great book to read as a family.
Also, a few nights ago we saw that they are making a movie called Hugo, based on this book. I can't wait to finish the book with the kids and then be able to go watch the movie as a family and talk about how it was the same as and different than the novel.
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
pretty simple but i love the way it constructs the story
Content Warnings
Graphic: Police brutality, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
This book is one of the most amazing novels I have read. The first graphic novel I have read, as well. The picture of the cover of the dust jacket is intricate and detailed and looks mechanical and has a lock on the front which makes you wonder what it is for? What will it unleash? The side and the back of the jacket blend together to show a drawing of Hugo... staring right at you. It is indeed very intriguing. The only color in this book is the inside of the cover; and it is red. I figure it is made to be red, because when I think of magicians capes, I think of red capes. As well as picturing old movie curtains, I see them as red. And those are two very important things in this novel; movies and magic. Every page has a thick black border around it, and the rest of the page is white, except the text. And the pages with images on them are so detailed that sometimes you find yourself staring at a certain page for longer than you would think. Some of the images are of real events, or stills from the films by Georges Méliès, whom this book would be nonexistent without. This book tells a story of a 12 year old orphan boy who doesn't want to go to an orphanage, so he tries to provide for himself by stealing what he can, and eventually gets caught. But this makes him a friend who helps him unravel the mystery his father left behind after a brutal death, and eventually leads to a very magical happy ending of this orphan no longer being an orphan, as he helps people to rediscover the magic that Georges Méliès created in his cinemas before the war. It is a fictional novel that relates back to real people and events, and makes the reader feel as if they are watching the novel more than just reading it, and it is a novel that I am glad I own now, and look forward to not only reading again, but sharing with my children and my students. Absolutely incredible!
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I watched this movie many years ago and never realized there was also a book. Discovered it completely on accident as well
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I so wish I would have been able to read this as a movie-loving kid, and I’ve nothing but love for it as a movie-loving adult.
This was an all-out performance with sound effects and all. I'm assuming that the sound effects were put in to take the place of the pictures that are in the print edition, and they're definitely cool, but some of them are extremely loud compared to the speech of the book. I was cringing and shrinking from the speakers until I could reach the volume knob while driving, I can only imagine how it would be for someone with earbuds in!