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Wonderstruck (Schneider Family Book Award - Middle School Winner) Hardcover – September 13, 2011
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- Print length640 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level4 - 6
- Lexile measure830L
- Dimensions5.75 x 2 x 8.5 inches
- PublisherScholastic Press
- Publication dateSeptember 13, 2011
- ISBN-109780545027892
- ISBN-13978-0545027892
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- ASIN : 0545027896
- Publisher : Scholastic Press; First Edition (September 13, 2011)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 640 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780545027892
- ISBN-13 : 978-0545027892
- Reading age : 8 - 11 years, from customers
- Lexile measure : 830L
- Grade level : 4 - 6
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.75 x 2 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #51,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #102 in Children's Books on Disabilities
- #406 in Children's Mystery, Detective, & Spy
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Brian Selznick grew up in New Jersey and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in 1988. He worked for two years after graduation at Eeyore's Books for Children in New York City. His first book was published while he worked there.
Brian has also designed theater sets and worked as a professional puppeteer. His first book, The Houdini Box, was inspired by a fascination with the famous magician. He has illustrated both novels and picture books for other writers, including the Sibert Honor books, When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan and Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley. His illustrations for Barbara Kerley's The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins won a Caldecott Honor Award in 2002; and in 2008, his groundbreaking book The Invention of Hugo Cabret was awarded the Caldecott Medal. It was nominated for a National Book Award and was the basis for Martin Scorsese's Oscar winning film Hugo. His follow up illustrated novel, Wonderstruck, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Brian's next book, The Marvels, will be published in the fall of 2015. Brian divides his time between New York, and San Diego.
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Throughout the story, Ben goes on a journey to find answers. He is struck by lightning one night while in his mother’s old home, and awakens in the hospital; entirely deaf. After he escapes from the hospital, he travels to New York in search of his father, whom he has never met. Ben discovers things about his past that he never knew, such as the story of his parents. He also meets relatives that he did not know existed.
On his journey, Ben becomes friends with a boy named Jamie. Ben and Jamie work together to solve the mystery of Ben’s father and find the meaning behind the objects Ben has as memories of his mother. As the reader, you will discover that Ben is a dynamic character. In the beginning of the story, he is lost within his own mind, and his past is a mystery that he longs to uncover. As the story unravels, Ben becomes for open to possibilities. He changes as a person in the sense that he finally knows who he was, and who he is meant to be. He is no longer lost within memories, but rather finds joy in life. One can infer that he has become more confident in himself.
When Ben meets his grandmother, Rose, towards the end of the story, she shows him a Panorama in a museum. This panorama is filled with memories of Ben’s father’s childhood. Ben was amazed by this panorama, and it seemed to be filled with wonders and untold stories that connected Ben to his father. As Rose explains all the details to Ben, he was in awe over the magical creation, and how it “[is] one of the most wondrous things Ben ha[s] ever seen” (Selznick 556). The panorama is a very significant, almost game- changing part of the story.
As the story comes to an end, Jamie sees Ben and Rose near the panorama in the museum. He sees the look in Ben’s eyes, and asks Ben who he really is, as Jamie can see that something has changed in Ben. For the first time in his life, Ben knows. He replies confidently, “I think I can answer” (Selznick 591).
At over six hundred pages, filled with hand- drawn sketches and brilliant words, Wonderstruck is a tale that any teenager or adult would enjoy. This book is meant for a bit of a more mature audience, due to the word choice and intense detail in the story. I could not put the book down once I began reading it. I was enthralled by the mixture of feelings and emotions it provoked within me. I highly recommend this book for leisurely enjoyment and inspiration.
They are both "graphic novels," but Wonderstruck shows that can mean at least two different things. The two books both worked much like a TV storyboard or silent movie accompanied by text. However, HUGO was a single story essentially following a single protagonist. WONDERSTRUCK is TWO stories of two individuals whose tales occur 50 years apart, but amazingly intersect in a common and simultaneous conclusion. (Yes, you CAN eventually figure that out and be surprised.) Moreover, the story of one is told primarily with wordless, yet imaginative and evocative graphics, while the story of the other is virtually completely told by narrative text.
Like HUGO, WONDERSTRUCK in both words and pictures is hugely atmospheric and takes place in sometimes puzzling, but always somewhat mysterious environments, with secret entrances, spooky trees, keys and locked doors, strange artifacts, cloudy relationships, cryptic messages, and people searching for arcane fulfillment. The ENGRAVING-LIKE graphics in both are a triumph, not only of enormous technical effort, but of a compelling sense of human (and animal) authenticity.
You can read more in other reviews about the plot and characters, but my advice is to IMMEDIATELY get and read WONDERSTRUCK. If you haven't yet read THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET or if you've just seen the movie version, HUGO, buy THAT book too. These are wonderful books to read and enjoy if you are anywhere between 8 and 80. They are must-keep additions to almost anyone's library. The stories and the characters are lovely. The art is superb and clearly a labor of love.
Best of all, both books boast hundreds of these enchanting graphite illustrations originally done on watercolor paper. I guarantee you that after you have seen these illustrations you will never again look at a pencil as an ordinary object. As a graphite portrait artist myself I find that Selznick provides a masterclass in how to draw that alone is worth more than the price of these two beautiful books.
If you find it daunting to contemplate reading a 2" thick, 640-page books that weighs over 2 lbs, you might not want to bench press WONDERSTRUCK while lying on your back reading in bed. But you might also want to weigh the fact that over 460 pages are artwork that tells a story at a glance. Even though I particular enjoyed dwelling on the richness of these superb drawings, you might not be like me. Still, of the remaining 180 pages of text, all are written with conversational simplicity and some are only two or three lines long. I read the whole book in one evening and an hour after breakfast the next day. I couldn't put it down. You probably won't be able to either.
You will in fact be wonderstruck. Thank you Brian Selznick.
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Sin embargo lo consegui a muy buen precio ($90.00)
Quede muy satisfecha
Adorei,adorei! As ilustrações complementam a história e tudo se junta no final. O meu favorito do autor até agora.
Meanwhile, in pictures (I don’t just mean pictures, I mean the most wonderful pencil illustrations I can admire and treasure ) we find Rose, a deaf girl hidden away by her parents, one of whom is a famous silent screen actress – yes we have shifted back a few years. Rose also rebels against captivity and escapes, only for her it is across Hoboken Sound rather than across half the country.
How their stories develop and eventually mingle is part of Wonderstruck, but it is so much more.
In many ways the stories are very simple. The way they are told and the presentation that mixes words and pictures, makes it deliciously complex. I love the detail, not only of the illustrations (ah! the museum exhibition, the skeletons, the cityscapes, the dioramas!) but of the small items that link one person’s life with another’s. If there really is such a model of the city in Queens Art Museum, I want to visit it. These descriptions gave me a tingle such as I haven’t felt from a book for years. So much to discover about the art of curating, it opened a whole new world to me.
The theme of Deaf Culture runs deeply through this book. In this book most of those we meet have had hearing at some stage, and I would argue that there is a difference, but the fact that deafness still puts up unseen barriers between people is something worth bringing forward for open discussion, and I think this book does an excellent job of raising awareness of many issues.
It’s not a perfect book, but it’s delightful and compelling, and I feel richer for the experience of reading it, as will children of all ages, deaf or hearing.