Wonderstruck, by Brian Selznick, who won the
2008 Randolph Caldecott Medal for
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, is another remarkable book by the talented author and illustrator. Like
Hugo Cabret,
Wonderstruck is "A Novel in Words and Pictures" for middle grade readers. However, instead of one story, in
Wonderstruck, Selznick tells two stories. One is set in 1977 and told in words only, and one is set 50 years earlier, in 1927, and told exclusively in illustrations until near the end of the book when the two stories come together.
Brian Selznick won a 2012 Schneider Family Book Award in recognition of his "artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences" in his portrayal of each of the main characters in the two stories, a boy and a girl, both of whom are deaf. See my review of Wonderstruck for more about the book, which is 600+ pages long, with more than 450 of Selznick's dense pencil illustrations covering the pages. It's number 1 on my personal list of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2011. Do you have a facorite illustrated children's book that was published in 2011? If so, please click on "Comments" below and post a message about it.
(Cover art courtesy of Scholastic)
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