Brian Selznick
Hardcover | Pages: 640 pages Rating: 4.17 | 50805 Users | 6634 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Wonderstruck |
| ISBN: | 0545027896 (ISBN13: 9780545027892) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Ben Wilson, Rose Kincaid, Walter Kincaid |
| Setting: | Hoboken, New Jersey(United States) New York City, New York(United States) Gunflint Lake, Minnesota(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School Book (2012), Buckeye Children's Book Award for 3-5 (2012), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2013), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2013), California Young Readers Medal for Middle School/Junior High (2014) Bluestem Book Award Nominee (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Middle Grade & Children's (2011) |
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Ben and Rose secretly wish for better lives. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. 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. Set fifty years apart, these two independent stories - Ben's told in words, Rose's in pictures - weave back and forth in symmetry.Describe Based On Books Wonderstruck
| Title | : | Wonderstruck |
| Author | : | Brian Selznick |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 640 pages |
| Published | : | September 13th 2011 by Scholastic Press |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Young Adult. Childrens. Middle Grade. Sequential Art. Graphic Novels |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 50805 Users | 6634 ReviewsWrite-Up Based On Books Wonderstruck
Despite Wonderstruck's 630 pages, I read it within the span of three hours. Granted, over 460 of those pages are illustrations, but I still believe this fact attests to Wonderstruck's ability to keep its reader engaged and entertained.Wonderstruck is two stories in one: it is Ben's story, and it is Rose's story. With the former's being told in words, and the latter's being told in illustrations, this textile tale takes two youngsters, a book, a turtle, a bookstore, a museum, and severalHype. Whats the point? A publisher believes that a book is going to be big so they crank up the old hype machine and do everything in their power to draw attention to it long before its publication date. Thats what they did for Brian Selznicks Wonderstruck and I was sad to see it. As far as I was concerned, Selznicks The Invention of Hugo Cabret was too tough an act to follow. Here you had a book that managed to get hundreds of librarians across the nation of America to redefine in their own
Perfection!!!
I'm such a huge fan of Brian Selznick because he's a master at constructing stories. And not only that, but stories that intersect art and prose BEAUTIFULLY. This was no exception. I love that this book focuses on two separate stories and timelines, but they find relevancy to the other in the end. It was absolutely fascinating and I read 300 pages of this in one sitting because it just flies by. I found the focus on deaf characters especially heightened the importance of telling one of these
Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders. Ive been wanting to read this beauty of a book for ages now, so when I saw it on the shelves of my library, I was beyond ecstatic.Wonderstruck jumps back and forth between the lives of Ben and Rose, who live fifty years apart from each other. It follows how both of them miss someone important and quite mysterious in their lives. Ben longs of finding and meeting the father he never met, while Rose is more focused on following a certain famous
Wow 👏
Impressive and moving. Ok end of review. Just kidding, though I'm not sure if I have the words because there is so much that the reader experiences that isn't understood but felt.The story is told from two perspectives. One from a girl named Rose who lives in the 20s and boy named Ben who lives in the 70s. Rose's story is told through pictures and Ben's through words. The two stories intertwine in the most fitting way. I thought the combination of words and pictures was perfect for the story of
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