5/29/2023 0 Comments Wonderstruck bookIndeed the whole plot of the book revolved around filmmaking so what would be the point of writing another book in the same vein? If Cabret credits its success in part to its originality, doesn’t that give his Wonderstruck a handicap right from the start? You’d think so, but you might also forget something about Cabret. Cabret was remarkable because it combined words and pictures in a manner most closely resembling a film. Here you had a book that managed to get hundreds of librarians across the nation of America to redefine in their own minds the very definition of “picture book”. As far as I was concerned, Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret was too tough an act to follow. That’s what they did for Brian Selznick’s Wonderstruck and I was sad to see it. What’s 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.
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